Excerpt from The Philosophy of the Human Voice But the mass-meeting, not to lessen its little dignity, by drop ping even a letter, is still a mass, and will have its own stubborn and head-strong way. The work therefore, of which I here offer the fourth edition, much enlarged, must, I suppose, be tried, and I fear condemned by its rules. For if the voice of the times, joining immediately in the advancement of any point of knowledge, is the test of its truth, merely because the mind of the times, has up to the last step, produced the advancement. 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.