text:  He shows us near the outset of our journey one astonishing result to which it is to conduct us and which necessarily inflames our eagerness to get over the ground:-- "That the reader may have in advance some notion of this manner of analysing words and discovering their hidden meaning I beg here to give for the present the contents of the analysis of the English alphabet _collectively_ considered; that is not as to what each letter means when read by itself but as to what they all mean when read together in the following order:-- A B C D E F G H I (or J) K L M N O P Q R S T U (or V) W X Y Z; of which the literal meaning in modern English is--_This first book is had of the Jews; it opens the mind and is good breeding and wisdom