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THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE
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Either of these can be expressed in words-but they are so expressed at tae cost of consciousness and a clear and facile coinprebeasibility. Either of these is equally intelligible to all versed in their several significances, irrespective of language as a vehicle.
Even in the present day the value of such a system, in association with larguage-when the word take the place of the idea and forms the basis of the signshas been recognised and utilized in the several de vices 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 mordern civilization. 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 wbich the group of symbols denoting the elementary composition for the most part suggest the designation; or, just as the same numberals differently grouped signify different quantities, so did the same ideograms, variously combined and inflected, recall different mental inpressions, whose re-idealization they suggested. In point of fact the ideograms in ideographic combinatioa were to intellectual perceptions what the notes of music in m::sical
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