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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 5: Texas.—1845. (search)
h national dialect simple and exact, and make easy the transition from many rectified languages to one pure language. With millennial hopefulness, he repeated his belief that some then living would witness a world's convention either to devise a common language, or to provide ways and means for the universal propagation of such a language. The fancied every-day uses of the art he thus pictured in a letter to S. J. May: My attention has recently been drawn to the subject of Ms. July 17, 1845. Phonography and Phonotypy, and I want you, as a friend of universal reform, to look into it; for I am persuaded you will be delighted with it, as I have been. It is a new system of writing and printing, invented by Mr. Isaac Pitman, a teacher in Bath, England, by which the ignorant masses may be taught to read and write in an almost incredibly short space of time— compressing the labor of months into weeks, and of years into months. As a teacher and a scholar, you know how monstrous a