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anoddher nacion: for such adopter wer no more a distinct nacion or language ; wer but a mongrel, or an eccoe."
Sect. 4.—Proposed Philosophical Arrangement of the Alphabet as applied to Language in general.
The ordinary arrangement of the alphabet being thus defective and unphilosophical, we shall propose another mode of disposing the letters, which we shall endeavour to justify, by assigning a reason for allutting to each letter the particular place which it occupies. We shall exhibit our alphabet, then, in this form:—
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According to this scheme, the letters are distributed into Four columns, each column containing five letters. This arrangement is not an arbitrary one, but is made upon principles of philosophical propriety.
