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Updated: June 24, 2025
For example, in former times the telegraph, which causes the East and the West to communicate, was unknown but not impossible; photography and phonography were unknown but not impossible.”
The first three letters of the alphabet representing the whole in the circle, formed a character or symbol which was often made to stand as a 'token' for a proper name, easily spelt in that way, when phonography and anagrams were in such lively and constant use, while it made, at the same time, a symbolical representation of the radical doctrine of the new school in philosophy, a school then so new, that its 'Doctors' were compelled to 'pray in the aid of simile, even in affixing their names to their own works, in some cases.
And then a mute who knew shorthand well enough to have such ready recourse to it, struck me as being unusual. They all know the digital sign language; but German and phonography classed him as one above the ordinary. This knowledge brought the suggestion of an institution. Then came the suggestion that he might be an instructor in such an institution.
Rawlence said: 'There's an accomplishment coming into general use now that might help you enormously: phonography, shorthand-writing, you know. I am told it will mean a revolution in ordinary clerical work, and newspaper work already rests largely on it.
It is noteworthy that the same thing necessarily happens in the case of any new system of spelling. The most prominent advocates of phonetic spelling have been also the authors of a system of phonetic shorthand. Like the written and printed alphabet of Europe, the alphabet of Phonography was made phonetic.
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