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THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE has been recognised and utilized in the several devices of stenographic (or short-hand) and cypher writing; for in these principles of concealment, conciseness and rapidity of expression are adapted to the requirements of modern civilzation. Thus the ideographic system, as used to record and transmit the solution of mental problems, was as scientific as natural; as simple and at the same time of as universal application, as is the chemical, the algebraic and the numerical system of annotation in the present day. Under it, just as the same chemical elements variously combined yield divers natural products, of which the group of symbols denoting the elementary composition for the most part suggest the designation ; or, just as the same numerals differently grouped signify different quantities, so did the same ideograms, variously combined and inflected, recall different mental impressions, whose re-idealization they suggested In point of fact the ideograms in ideographic combination were to intellectual perceptions what the notes of music in musical compositions are to sensuous impressions ; so that, regarding music as a mystery, its written signs or notes, variously arranged, constitute the Mystery Language of its proficients—as beings to them a medium through which all can reproduce the same melody at sight, irrespective of the vulgar tongue of each ; and arouse the same emotions in their audience without the aid of speech,
The living Mystery Language here suggests what its long-lost sister must have been. But there was this.
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