Dialogue

 1 Craty|      them into their original elements, he now proceeds to analyse
 2 Craty|      in the analysis of their elements. But why does he admit etymologies
 3 Craty|         Will you go on to the elements—sun, moon, stars, earth,
 4 Craty|    our analysis some ultimate elements or roots will remain which
 5 Craty| reached one of these original elements, and the truth of such a
 6 Craty|       the letters, or primary elements of which they are composed.
 7 Craty|      as well as the secondary elements are rightly given. I may
 8 Craty|       opposite and contrasted elements of the individual and nation,
 9 Craty|       classes of letters. The elements of all speech, like the
10 Craty|       of all speech, like the elements of the musical scale, are
11 Craty| composite, but into its first elements the philologer has never
12 Craty|      loss of inflections, the elements of syntax, which may be
13 Craty|       enquiring also into the elements out of which the words are
14 Craty|       the names which are the elements of all other names and sentences;
15 Craty|     thoos is made up of other elements, and these again of others.
16 Craty| should turn out to be primary elements, must not their truth or
17 Craty|    also whether the secondary elements are rightly given or not,
18 Craty|       he expresses the subtle elements which pass through all things.
19 Craty|    thing, unless the original elements of which they are compounded
20 Craty|   imitation: And the original elements are letters?~CRATYLUS: Yes.~