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Excerpt from Pantography, or Universal Drawings: In the Comparison of Their Natural and Arbitrary Laws, With the Nature and Importance of Pasigraphy, as the Science of Letters
It is not without some years of labour in this department, that the author has thus ventured in the presence of a discerning public, to present this treatise, most respectfully dedicated to the American philanthropist. From early life there has been a progressive conviction, gradually strength ening upon the mind of the author, that all mysteries, however complex or varied, have their origin in plain elements. Classed with these, and not of the least importance, were letters and sounds. It occurred to his mind that the faculties of articulation were limited to a fixed scale, which as a thermometer, should exhibit the degrees of their variation from the index able points. And having been impressed with a sense of the importance of such a scale, the author felt constrained to publish Such facts as have already come under his notice in the analysis of articulate sounds. And, in thus doing, be by no means wishes to imply that he has arrived at a scale so strictly perfect, as not to be improved, or that none could better it. Or that its order agrees accurately as yet with the long established formulas of the well sifted sciences. These things remain for the better informed to polish, and set in their respective places, as most of those given, are the plain unvarnished originals. In the first department, or Pantography, he has introduced the student to the alphabet of nature, the letters of which are characteristic of size, form, celour, density, and cohesion; showing how they may be analyzed and read by Ihe mind, with methods to parse facts by visible rules, such as the first, second, and third orders Of Ideography.
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