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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64608	Logopandecteision, or, An introdvction to the vniversal langvage digested into these six several books, Neaudethaumata, Chrestasbeia, Cleronomaporia, Chryseomystes, Nelcadicastes, & Philoponauxesis / by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie ...	Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660.	1653 (1653)	Wing U137; ESTC R3669	114,144	164

destructive unto Scotland and that the cause of God could not produce Diabolical effects Your holiness amongst the Zelots of the Nation did give way to beleeve the truth of both And when moreover I avouched that money should never be held in such estimation that either to honestie or a good name any summe however so great ought to be preferred Your discretion amidst many of the Ecclesiastical Armie did in very deed acknowledge the veritie of the saying although verbally you denyed it And at last when to be charitable to distressed men whose misery could not with reason be imputed to their own fault was by me represented to be an especial act of goodness you out of your love amongst the Scotish Merchants condescended to it Whereby most seriously perpending the manifold or rather innumerable testimonies of your goodness holiness grace discretion wisdome liberalitie reverence mercie pietie generositie magnificence love and other unexpressible respects I have perceived to flow from your highness in behalf of me whether I applyed my self to the Nobilitie Souldierie Gentrie Clergie or Burger degree of the Consistorian partie of the Scotish Nation I must needs promise in acquital of these incomâ—rehensible good deeds out of your endless and immense bountie so undeservedly erogated whilst I breath to break my parole unto you to be to you dishonest and prove disloyal to you in my trust to curse you in malicious thoughts reproach you with scandalous words and wrong you with cruel and unconscionable deeds to do you injustice deceive and cosen you to persecute you with hatred envie and rancour of mind and according to the infallible rules of the Sacred Evangile dictamen of reason and precepts of Philosophie to approve my self your faithless implacable and wicked enemie and consequently to your contrary opposite every body upright true and honest and to your contradictorie foe some body an affectionate trustie stedfast and unalterable both Friend and Servant Thomas Vrquhaerâ— The Contents Of the First BOOK entituled NEAUDETHAUMATA THe Author in this first Book of his Introduction discloseth many excellent overtures for the furtherance of Literature Espâ—cially in the facility of contriving expressions for any conception the mind of man is able to afford He plainly setteth down the analogie that ought to be betwixt things and words and that to make a perfect Language things semblable in nature should be signifyed by words of a like pronunciation He proveth all hitherto known tongues to be full of imperfection both by reason of the insufficiencie of their Alphabets and for that there are many common things which cannot without circumlocution be expressed by them He compareth the learned Languages with one another giveth freely his opinion of all vernacularie tongues and demonstrateth an universal defect in all and each of both the one and other because of the common necessity they are driven unto of mutual borrowing for conveniencie of elocuâ—ion The Author also in this Book utterly rejecteth the vulgarly received opinion of the origin of Languagâ—s and very neatly twits the opposers of those curious arts whereâ—n there is no harm He confuteth that disproportion in matter of number twixt words and things wherewith the smattrers in knowledge would cloak their inability of giving unto every thing its proper term and sheweth how for the advancement of Learning and Vertue clearing the mind of all prejudicat tenets the brains and heart should be purged of malice and wilful ignorance the two plagues of a Common-wealth the bad acquitals he hath received from some great men of his own Countrey he but glanceth at to incordiat other his compatriots with more respect in times coming to men of no lesse desert declareth what injury to that deity unto which the heavens are subservient is done by those lazie Sciolists who frequently seek after supernatural causes where the natural is obvious to the eyes of our understanding The Author likewise setteth forth in this Book the possibility of framing a new idiome of far greater perfection then any hitherto spoken and that the performance of such an undertaking will without doubt exceedingly conduce to the benefit and contentment of all ingenious Schollars By its Logopandocie or comprehension of all utterable words and sounds articulat he evidenceth the universality of the proposed Language and by infallible reason proveth whilst there is no other world but this the impossibility of forming any other such Lastly The Author after his delivery of a genuine and upright gloss on three passages of Solomon Terence and Paul in confutation of some Scholiasts Idolizers of corrupt antiquitie who had mis-interpreted those texts concerning the nature of new inventions most manifestly avoucheth that exquisit inventions will never be wanting so long as good spirits are extant on the earth and in concluding this his first Book with sixtie and six several advantages this Language hath above all other exposeth to the view of the judicious Reader many inestimable secrets worthie the perusal of the best wits of the time The first BOOK OF THE INTRODVCTION To the Universall Language intituled NEAUDETHAUMATA OR Wonders of the new SPEECH which as a Preface thereto comprehendeth its most necessary Prenoscendas together with some Miscellanie Articles concerning the AUTHOR himself 1 WOrds are the signes of things it being to signifie that they were instituted at first nor can they be as such directed to any other end whether they be articulate or inarticulate 2 All things are either real or rational and the real either naturall or artificial 3. There ought to be a proportion betwixt the sign and thing signified therefore should all things whether real or rationall have their proper words assigned unto them 4. Man is called a Microcosme because he may by his conceptions and words containe within him the representatives of what in the whole world is comprehended 5 Seeing there is in nature such affinity 'twixt words things as there ought to be in whatsoever is ordained for one another that Language is to be accounted most conform to Nature which with greatest variety expresseth all manner of things 6. As all things of a single compleat being by Aristotle into ten Classes were divided so may the words whereby those things are to be signified be set apart in their several storehouses 7. Arts Sciences Mechanick Trades notionall faculties and whatever is excogitable by man have their own Method by vertue whereof the Learned of these latter times have orderly digested them Yet hath none hitherto considered of a mark whereby words of the same Faculty Art Trade or Science should be dignosced from those of another by the very sound of the word at the first hearing 8. A Tree will be known by its leaves a stone by its grit a Flower by the smel Meats by the taste Musick by the ear Colours by the eye the severall Natures of things with their properties and essentiall qualities by the Intellect and accordingly as the things are in themselves diversified the

apparitions 38 I saw once a young man who for his cunning conveyance in the Feats of Leger Demaine was branded by some of that Fry for Sorcery and another for being able by vertue of the Masson word to make a Masson whom he had never seene before without speaking or any other apparent signe come and salute him reputed by many of the same Litter to have had a familiar their grosse ignorance moving them to call that supernaturall or above the naturall reach of meere man whereof they knew not the cause 39 By which meanes Mathematicall Thaumaturgies Opticall magick secrets of nature and other Philosophicall mysteries being esteemed to be rancke Witch-craft they ruine the best part of Learning and make their owne unskillfullnes Supreame Judge to passe an Irrevocable sentence upon the Condemnation of knowledge 40 The matter notwithstanding would be of lesse danger were this the worst but to this ignorance of theirs is concomitant so much wickednes that when an action of any extraordinary performance is done although by a man of a most approvable conversation to a very good end such as the curing of the diseased or releeving men out of apparent peril yet if the cause thereof be unknowne to them they will not be so charitable as to attribute the effect to a good Angel albeit their faith obliege them to beleeve that the Spirits belonging to any of the nine celestiall orders are for the atchievement of such masteries in nothing inferior to the infernall Demons but instead of Gabriell Raphaell Michaell and such good Spirits by whom I think it is more probâ—ble an honest man would be assisted in works of a strange and hidden operation then by the bad ones they ascribe the wonderfullnes of the exploit to the inspiration of Beelzebub Abadon Lucifer or some other of the Fâ—ends of Hell so malevolently they asperse the reputation of gallant men whose deeds surpass their Capacity 41 Truly those two qualities of Ignorance and wickednes conjoyned are of such pernicious consequence that no Nation or Common-wealth wherein they get footing is able long to subsist for rapine coveteousnes and extortion flowing from the one as from the other doth all manner of Basenes Pusillanimity and cowardize ignorance affecteth the Braine and wickednes the Heart Yet both the Braine and Heart of a common weale by the mischeiously vnskillfull and illiterately malicious are equally depraved 42 For remedy of so generall a Calamity seeing universality hath its existence in individualls would each amend but one the totall would be quickly rid of this Lamentable infection 43 Therefore since ever I understood any thing knowing that the welfare of the Body of a government consisteth in the intirenes of its noble parts I alwayes endeavoured to employ the best of my Brain and Heart towards the furtherance of the Honour of that Country unto which I did owe my birth 44 In prosecuting whereof as the heart is primum vivent so was it my heart which in my younger years before my braines were ripened for eminent undertakings gave me the courage for adventuring in a forrain Climat thrice to enter the Lists against men of 3 severall nations to vindicate my native Country from the Calumnies wherewith they had aspersed it wherein it pleased God so to conduct my fortune that after I had disarmed them they in such sort acknowledged their Error and the obligation they did owe me for sparing their Lives which justly by the Law of Arms I might have taken that in Lieu of three enemies that formerly they were I acquired three constant Friends both to my selfe and my compatriots whereof by severall gallant testimonies they gave evident proofe to the Improvement of my Countreys credit in many occasions 45 As my Heart hath been thus devoted to the love of my native soile so have my Braines to the Honour thereof discharged so much duty that betwixt what is printed and what ready for the presse I have set forth above a hundred severall Bookes on Subjects never hitherto thought upon by any 46. Let no man think that I have spoke this in hope of future benefit or by way of regret I should have faild therof in times past vertue in my estimation whether morall or intellectuall carrying alwayes along with it a recompence sufficient nor yet out of pride or vaine glory in extolling of my own praises which as willingly as to live I would have smothered but that the continuall receiving of bad offices for my good intentions hath wrought this excursion out of my pen. 47. Could any man imagine I should have been singled out amongst all those of Scotland to suffer most prejudice without a Cause that the wickedest of all the Land should be permitted to possesse the best part of my Inheritance vnder colour of a law by meer iniquity and other little better then he to gape after the remainder without any fault of mine 48. who would think that some of my Tenants whilst I was from home being killed and neer upon three thousand pound sterlin worth of Goods taken from them by a pack of villaines who could pretend for their robery no other excuse but that they had been plundered by others no reparation or justice should be granted although oftentimes demanded that I should be extorsed in matter of publique dues beyond any of my neighbours that a garrison should be placed within my house and kept there ten months together to my almost utter undoing upon no other pretence but that the stance thereof is stately and the house it selfe of a notable good Fabrick and contrivance and in the mean while a party both of horse and foot remain nevertheles quartered upon my lands till the remotest Highlands should pay their sesse-mony that neighbor Garisons besides my own should by parties inforce me upon their Governours bare tickets to furnish them with what provisions they pleased and yet nothing thereof be allowed unto me although I presented a Bill to that purpose to the Scots Committee of Estates as I did forthe quartering of severall Troops of horse for many months together without any allowance 49. These grievous pressures with many other and as many more I have sustained by the ministry of the Land whereof I make account in the large treatise of my Aporrexises to give notice more at length have occasiond this digression in a part which likewise having proceeded from a serious consideration of the two aforesaid scurvie quallities that move the Inhabitants of this I le to run every foot to supernaâ—ural causes engageth me to say that as it is a maxim in Philosophy that entia non sunt multiplicanda sine necessitate So that it is no lesse in congruity to avouch that a thing hath miraculously been done by God or that for atchievement thereof the help of an evill Spirit because of his being reputed of more experience then man hath been required thereto when in the mean while perhaps the performance of it by

Logopandecteision OR AN INTRODVCTION TO THE VNIVERSAL LANGVAGE Digested into these Six several Books Neaudethaumata Chrestasebeia Cleronomaporia Chryseomystes Neleodicastes Philoponauxesis BY Sir THOMAS URQUHART of Cromartie Knight Now lately contrived and published both for his own utilitie and that of all pregnant and ingenious Spirits Câ—dere quaerenti nonne haec justissima res est Qui non plura cupit quam ratio ipsa jubet Englished thus To grant him his demands were it not just Who craves no more then reason sayes he must LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls and by Richard Tomlius at the Sun and Bible near Pye-corner 1653. The Epistle Dedicatorie To No-body Most Honourable MY non supponent Lord and Soveraign master of contradictions in adjected terms that unto you I have presumed to tender the dedicacie of this introduction will not seem strange to those that know how your concurrence did further me to the accomplishment of that new Language unto the frontispeice whereof it is premitted You did assist me in the production of many special fancies whose promulgation will perhaps exceedingly conduce to the delight of the Philosophical Reader by your help amidst the the penurie of books and want of learned conversation have by me been enixed several treatises which for their apparent usefulnesse and curiosity I sometime intend to consecrate to the Shrine of publique view if none hitherto hath made choice of such a patron neither hath any till this hour afforded an invention of that kind In things whereof the proposed subject is within our reach imitation is imbraceable but where the matter is transcendent we commonly bid patterns adiew that porch will not befit a cottage which is suitable to a Cathedral nor can unusuall dedications misbeseem tractats on an extraordinary purpose seeing therefore skill in symmetrie bespeaks an artificer and gives the contexture of a work that decorum which becomes the Author I am with force of reason perswaded to this election thereby to glance at the proportion betwixt your favours and my retribution for such were the courtesies you conferred on me that I could not otherways choose but lay hold on this expedient to testifie my remembrance of them When after the fatal blow given at Worcester on the third of Septemb. 1651. to the regal partie I was 5 times plundred pillaged pilfred robbed and rifled and nothing almost left me fortune could dispoil me of save my health alone which in the croud of so many incident difficulties as I was forced to undergo was most miraculously preserved You then out of your mercie amongst the victorious soldiers were pleased to commiserate my condition When in horses armes apparel and monie I had in that place taken from me above five hundred pounds worth English you at that time out of pietie amongst the Presbyterians of our armie did regret my case When it was told that amidst the fury of the raging souldiery I had above ten thousand crowns worth of papers embezeled without recovery you from your generosity of all the great men prisoners were sorry at the losse And lastly when after my being brought to London without either monie or goods I had my self and several others both brothers and servants whereof not any save my self alone had been in that City before to provide for in every thing that the States allowance which neverthelesse continued no longer then my parole was taken for their true imprisonment did not reach unto And that after many of my fellow prisoners of considerable fortunes at home had received from the Scottish factors on the Exchange in matter of borrowing monie answers so full of churlishnesse and inhumanity that I am ashamed the ear of any man of common honestie should hear them then was it whilst the charity of those Bankers and other rich Scots men at London by little and little decayed and became still the lesse the greater the pitch was unto which their wealth had formerly increast And that for six months together from none of my kindred alliance nor any other of my pretended friends in Scotland I had received so much as the mission or return of a letter that you such was your magnificence were content to supply my need and furnish me with what I lacked These favours I deem my self in duty the more obliged to commemorate that they were bestowed upon me in sequel of some others of that nature namely when a while agoe I had a suit in Law depending against a Gentleman neighbour of mine for taking fifteen in the hundred these sixteen years past and above and refusing payment of the principall summe that the said usurie might still continue for the which there was given unto him by my Father securitie in land by a present possession worth more then thrice the monie which my Father had received from him as likewise for plundring from my tenants in my absence above two thousand and five hundred pounds sterlin worth of goods it was then that your grace in the session of the land and Committee of Estate there taking notice of these enormous wrongs did doe me justice Much about the same time when some Ministers had maimed my rents to strengthen their own stipends your reverence sitting in the commission of the Kirk were pleased to take my part against them and patrocinate my cause By your highnesse also sitting then at the helm of the State of Scotland when a grievance for the pressure sustained by me was in all humility put in before the said Committee of Estates was I maintained against the crueltie and indiscretion of those did overrate me in the exaction of publick dues And finally when by the oppression of some ill affected countrey men under pretext of Committee acts my vassals and tenants had suffered extreme prejudice streight upon the presenting of a petition thereanent whereof at least a hundred at several times were tabled your wisdome remedied the plaintif and did for my cause redresse the injuries done unto him That with these benevolences as the most eminent effects of your ingenuitie I should as affairs then ruled be gratified by your liberalitie was from day to day my constant expectation being always perswaded to the greater probability of my acceptance of them that in many sound and wel-grounded opinions of mine long before that time you frequently jumped with me for when I openly said that Presbyterie was like to turn to a Hydral Episcopacie and that the gallantry of the English nation would never comport with such a government which Speech was thought should have been asserted by all the Nobles and Gentlemen of Scotland you out of your goodness amongst them all being sensible of the heavie yoke of the Democratical tyrannie of the Kirk were pleased to justify my sayings Besides this when the intending of one thing and pretending of another was by me a thousand times foretold to prove

secondary means of an ordinary working is obvious to any that have the dexterity to open his eyes to see the truth 50. For which cause they are much to blame that think it impossible for any man naturally to frame a language of greater perfection then Greek Hebrew or Latine 51. For who instead of affording the true cause of a thing unnecessarily runs to miracles tacitely acknowledgeth that God naturally cannot do it wherein he committeth blasphemie as that Souldier may be accounted guilty of contumacie and disobedience who rejecting the Orders wherewith an inferiour Officer is authorized to command him absolutely refuseth compearance unless the General himself come in person to require it of him 52. As there is a possibility such a Language may be so doe I think it very requisite such a Language were both for affording conciseness and abundance of expression 53. Such as extoll those Languages most are enforced sometimes to say that Laborant penuria verborum and thereunto immediately subjoyn this reason Quiae plures sunt res quam verba 54. That is soon said and ad pauca respicientes facile â—auntiant But here I ask them how they come to know that there are more Things then Words taking Things as in this sense they ought to be taken for Things universal because there is no word spoken which to the conceit of man is not able to represent more individuals then one be it Sun Moon Phoenix or what you will even amongst Verbs and Syncategorematical signes which do onely suppone for the modalities of things therefore is each word the sign of an universal thing Peter signifying either this Peter or that Peter and any whatever name surname or title being communicable to one and many 55. Thus though both words and thoughts as they are signs be universal yet do I believe that those who did attribute less universality to words then things knew not definitely the full number of words taking words for any articulate pronunciation 56. Nay I will go further There is no Alphabet in the world be the Calculator never so well skill'd in Arithmetick by vertue whereof the exact number of words may be known because that number must comprehend all the combinations that Letters can have with one another and this cannot be done if any letter be wanting and consequently by no Alphabet as yet framed wherein as I have already said in the twelfth Article there is a deficiency of many letters 57. The Universal Alphabet therefore must be first conceived before the exactness of that computation can be attained unto 58. Then is it when having couched an Alphabet materiative of all the words the mouth of man with its whole implements is able to pronounce and bringing all these words within the systeme of a Language which by reason of its logopandochie may deservedly be intituled The Universal Tongue that nothing will better merit the labour of a Grammatical Arithmetician then after due enumeration hinc inde to appariate the words of the Universal Language with the things of the Universe 59. The analogie therein 'twixt the signe and thing signified holding the more exactly that as according to Aristotle there can be no more worlds but one because all the matter whereof worlds can be composed is in this so can there be no Universal Language but this I am about to divulge unto the world because all the words enunciable are in it contained 60. If any officious Critick will run to the omnipotency of God for framing more worlds according to the common saying Nothing is impossible to God that implies not a contradiction so must he have recourse to the same omnipotent power for furnishing of man with other speech-tools then his tongue throat roof of the mouth lips and teeth before the contexture of another Universal Language can be warped 61. That I should hit upon the invention of that for the furtherance of Philosophy and other Disciplines and Arts which never hitherto hath been so much as thought upon by any and that in a matter of so great extent as the expressing of all the things in the world both in themselves actions ways of doing situation pendicles relations connexions pathetick interpositions and all other appurtenances to a perfect elocution without being beholding to any Language in the world insomuch as one word will hardly be believed by our fidimplicitary Gown-men who satisfied with their predecessors contrivances and taking all things litterally without examination blaterate to the naâ—seating even of vulgar ears those exotick Proverbs There is no new thing under the Sun Nihil dictum quod non dictum prius and Beware of Philosophers authorizating this on Paul the first on Solomon and the other on Terence 62. But poor souls they understand not that in the passage of Solomon is meant that there is no innovation in the essence of natural things all transmutations on the same matter being into forms which as they differ from some so have an essential uniformity with others preexistent in the same kind 63. And when it was said by Paul Beware of Philosophers he meant such Sophisters as themselves who under the vizzard of I know not what corrupt the channels of the truth and pervert all Philosophy and Learning 64. As for the sayings of Terence whether Scipio couched them or himself they ought to be inferred rather as testimonies of neat Latine then for asserting of infallible verities 65. If there hath been no new thing under the Sun according to the adulterate sense of those Pristinary Lobcocks How comes the invention of Syllogisms to be attributed to Aristotle that of the Sphere to Archimedes and Logarithms to Neper It was not Swart then and Gertudenburg that found out Gunpowder and the Art of Printing for these two men lived after the decease of Solomon 66. Had there been Canon in Solomons dayes Rehoboam by all appearance would have made use of them for the recovery of his inheritance nor had some mention of Artillery been omited in the Books of the Macchabees 67. Pancerola's Treatise de novis adimpertis although Polydor Virgil were totally forgot would be had there been no new thing since Solomon penn'd Ecclesiastes but as a discourse of Platonick reminiscencies and calling to mind some formerly lost fancies 68. Truly I am so far from being of the opinion of those Archaeomanetick Coxcombs that I really think there will alwayes be new inventions where there are excellent spirits 69. For as I ascribe unto my self the invention of the Trissotetrail Trigonometry for facility of calculation by representatives of letters and syllables the proving of the equipollencie and opposition both of plain and modal enunciations by rules of Geometry the unfolding of the chiefest parts of Philosophy by a continuated Geographical allegory and above a hundred other several books on different subjects the conceit of so much as one whereof never entered into the brains of any before my self although many of them have been lost at Worcester-fight

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