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Excerpt from American Fonostenografy: A Modern System of Rapid and Readable Shortand
And so through the evolution of shorthand systems there came to be two well defined classes of phonographies - the one com posed of methods based, as a rule, on the original Pitmanic systems and efficient for every reporting purpose, but, by reason of complexity and illegibility, capable of acquirement only by the exceedingly gifted or the supremely industrious the other made up of methods of shorthand which are so simple as to be readily mastered, but whose simplicity results from such limita tion in principles and development as necessarily renders them absolutely incapable of reporting power. The former class appeals to a high standard of culture; the latter addresses itself to a lower plane of mental capability and development; the former taxes too heavily the head, the latter demands an impossible dexterity of the hand. 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.
