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 who could have been the Interpreters of this Convention for uch Ideas, as, in conequence of their not having any enible Objects, could not be made manifet by Geture or Voice; o that we can carce form any tolerable Conjectures concerning the Birth of this Art of communicating our Thoughts, and etablihing a Correpondence between Minds: A ublime Art which, tho' o remote from its Origin, Philoophers still behold at uch a prodigious Ditance from its Perfection, that I never met with one of them bold enough to affirm it would ever arrive there, tho' the Revolutions necearily produced by Time were upended in its Favour; tho' Prejudice could be banihed from, or would at leat conent to it ilent in the Preence of our Academies; and tho' thee Societies hould conecrate themelves, entirely and during whole Ages, to the Study of this intricate Object.