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 recorded upon paper that it can be read and reproduced by any one (not dumb) who can read and write.

The theatre is the great preservative of the purity of spoken language, both in grammar and in pronunciation; each great actor being an arbiter elegantiarum in matters of speech. Censors hold all public speakers to a high standard of pronunciation and diction; and the study of grammar, while pursued by the more highly educated, has been largely done away with by reason of purity of speech being attained by force of example and criticism.

The use of the typewriting machine is universal, the machines printing phonetic characters exactly the same as those used in book and newspaper work, with variable spacing, and justifying perfectly. These machines are so arranged that they may be connected with the telegraphic system; so that a letter may be written in New York or in Paris by a person in Chicago and Melbourne; and all books of record are written in by machine only.

Writing is phonographic or phonetic, only; each word being composed of as many characters as there are sounds therein; no two sounds