was demanding a method of languages to its standard, he found a way of reducing all languages to unity and of communicating with all nations of the entire world by reciprocal negotiation in letters, as he says; and the man, born for the glory of the sciences and languages, ought deservedly to be asked to eventually assist the literary republic with this wondrous artifice.

CHAPTER III.

Principles of the Art briefly

exposed.

1. Whatever can ever fall under a question or be investigated by the inquiry of the mind, all that is directed by ten interrogative signs, called by Lull the Rules of Questions; which are also the fountains of the Answers to the questions, as the first margin of the Table shows: whose fuller exposition is to be sought from the Great Art of Lull.

2. Whatever then occurs in the Nature of things, whether it be a real entity or a concept of the mind, all of it is contained in the next margin of Subjects, resulting from the correct division of Entities,