Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Prof. March's Address Before the International Convention for the Amendment of English Orthography: Philadelphia, August 15, 1876
No language has a perfect alphabet. Alphabetic writing was not invented to answer to an ideal it is a sort of growth, or development by natural selection, from picture writing, and like other things that. Grow in minds without ideas, it needs making over for the use of man. Moreover, living speech is always changing, the spoken language always running away from the written.
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