Show A LANGUAGE suggestion PINE VALLEY washington co utah may loth 1896 when I 1 sat down the great subject of language was on my mind I 1 thought I 1 would tell of the mighty things it had bad done such as creating worlds by the word ol of his power corresponding so exactly with the old sayings god chaos heard and worlds rolled into ex istance or as the apostle says through faith we understand the worlds were made framed by the word of god and the power it represents in the case of joshua commanding the sun to stand still etc and the power of the word spoken by the savior and his authorized servants commanding diseases devils and even death to depart and they were obeyed and many other arguments that might be produced illustration of the extraordinary tra ordinary scope and power of language but I 1 concluded I 1 would occupy my time at present more particularly endeavoring to show the relationship between language itself and its optical representatives letters since the confusion of language at the great tower we have no doubt been deprived of a pure language a pure language would certainly have a pure orthography but the lack of a pure language need not prevent the adaptation of a correct orthography to the language whatever its nature or character might be it is said by what I 1 consider good authority that there is no sound without signification and no doubt every sound and articulation the human organs of speech are capable of performing would be included in some tongue or dialect among men and for aught I 1 know in what we call the pure language might be included every one of these sounds signs and significations expressed vocally it might naturally be asked how a pure or perfect orthography could be adapted to an impure or imperfect language answer in the first place appeal to the organs of speech determine every sound and articulation they are capable of performing and whatever ol of these various powers of expression is found to exist in any word of any language an whatever let each truly distinct sign or power have its identical or individual character or letter thus an imperfect language may be perfectly represented by a corresponding orthography I 1 am ware aware much has been done to set on toot foot a natural orthography to our language and perhaps to render it practical but it seems to have failed so far as the intrinsic imperfections in the systems which have been presented are concerned their failure is no surprise to me of course the substituting of any new system of orthography for our old old standard would be hard to do but I 1 know there is a road out of this trouble if we would avail ourselves of it it would save millions of money and other expenses I 1 am pretty sure after a correct system was once adopted with perfect honesty of intention so I 1 far as I 1 really know I 1 extend these few thoughts upon the sul eject if it meet your mind to insert upon t eject at some future time but in t all other truths finally truth WILL PRE |