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difference between the two-that whereas the one appealed through the sensuous to the emotional, the other sought through the imagination to reach the intellect. Thus each approached a different side of man's nature and gained access to it by a different method-music, through rhythmographic compositions, by rhythmical intonations stimulating the emotions ; science, through ideographic formulas, by silent suggestions, recalling preconceived ideas. This distinction between the aims of the two was inevitable, for whereas the mysterious language of music drew forth melodious utterances through modulations of sound, the Mystery Language of science was, from the nature of its constitution and the requirements that called it into being, necessarily void of vocalization. Hence, properly speaking, it was not a language in the strict sence of the term, but simply a means of intercommunication independent of speech, so that it might place the truths, it formulated, and was intended to transmit, at the disposition of all. And it was so constituted that each proficient in reproducing its teachings in vocal form, or interpreting them linguistically, might read them in his own language.
It will be evident from this that the ideograms (or Hebrew alphabetic letters) had no proper sound or vocalization of their own; and this is why in the Semitic tongues—whose written systems were derived from, and modelled on that of the Mystery Language vowels were wanting and had to be supplied by the reader, and to be ultimately perpetuated by the severally
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