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 cular, and conceptual images. Even the human anatomy is playing its rôle. Semiology, if not yet brought up to the full requirements of science, nevertheless has offered useful suggestion, and already it is the groundwork of reasonable, therefore promising conjecture. In a word, linguistics is receiving careful attention in its various aspects, or from different points-of-view. Language, tongue, graphic and oral speech, with their subdivisions and relations, are regarded with some consideration for perspective.

The elements of language are sought both internally and externally to its organic structure; and progress has been made in the appreciating of their reciprocal relations or interdependent laws. The phenomena of written and phonetic language are compared and weighed; their systems have been analysed and deductions have been made from the analyses. At last the conflict between pronunciation and spelling seems not quite hopeless, since the transmutations wrought by