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xxviii Thesaurus, possessing, in their respective spheres, the same advan- tages as those of the English model. Still more useful would be a conjunction of these methodized compilations in two languages, the French and English, for instance ; the columns of each being placed in parallel juxtaposition. No means yet devised would so greatly facilitate the acquisition of the one language, by those who are acquainted with the other : none would afford such ample assistance to the translator in either language ; and none would supply such ready and effectual means of instituting an accurate comparison between them, and of fairly appreciating their respective merits and defects. In a still higher degree would all those advantages be combined and multiplied in a Polyglot Lexicon constructed on this system.

Metaphysicians engaged in the more profound investigation of the Philosophy of Language will be materially assisted by having the ground thus prepared for them, in a previous analysis and classification of our ideas ; for such classification of ideas is the true basis on which words, which are their symbols, should be classified. It is by such analyses alone that we can arrive at a clear perception of the relation which these symbols bear to their corresponding ideas, or can obtain a correct knowledge of the elements which enter into