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 things as values, realities, entities, and identities. Thought, material, sound, form, substance, spirit, as used in dissertations on this subject, have lost much of their former ambiguity; and they now are aiding us in the perception of laws at work, as well as in the process of forming a conception of some of the effects of these laws.

The values of signs in both systems of oral and written speech, have been placed in classes; and one class has been dissociated from another for the practical purpose of clearer exposition; and, again, they have been considered together in their reciprocal relations for the purpose of gaining a perspective of the mass-phenomena.

It has been demonstrated that language is conditioned by laws; and the operations of many of these laws in their different spheres have been visualized. Their interdependence is admitted. The value of one series of relationships is modified or even determined by the value of the other to which it is correlated