6. The curvilinear eccentric quarter-circle expresses secrecy, silence,
possession, domination, stability, imposition, inclusion.
7. The curvilinear outside quarter-circle expresses things slender,
delicate (in two ways); the downward movement expresses moral and
intellectual delicacy.
8. The outside quarter-circle expresses exuberance, plenitude,
amplitude, generosity.
9. The circle which surrounds and embraces, characterizes glorification
and exaltation.
Part Third.
Articulate Language.
Chapter I.
Origin and Organic Apparatus of Language.
Man reveals his life through more than four millions of inflections ere
he can speak or gesticulate. When he begins to reason, to make
abstractions, the vocal apparatus and gesture are insufficient; he must
speak, he must give his thought an outside form so that it may be
appreciated and transmitted through the senses. There are things which
can be expressed neither by sound nor gesture. For instance, how shall
we say at the same time of a plant: "It is beautiful, but it has no
smell." Thought must then be revealed by conventional signs, which are
articulation. Therefore, God has endowed man with the rich gift of
speech.
Speech is the sense of the intelligence; sound the sense of the life,
and gesture that of the heart.
Soul communicates with soul only through the senses. The senses are the
condition of man as a pilgrim on this earth.
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