Excerpt from A Practical Exposition of Phonography, or Writing by Sound: Being a Complete System of Short-Hann Containing a Perfect Analysis of the English Language, With a New Alphabet, and Philosophic Illustrations of the Human Voice Mind, in communion with mind, acquires strength, perceives incentives, and is impelled. To action by their power. From material things, also, the mind derives light, truth and motive. The great medium of this communication is language, which presents an appreciable representative of the idea, fact, or con. Dition communicated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.