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prefent errors, would purchafe American editions, and 
would be ashamed to {pell incorre&ly, when he could ac- 
quire the mode of fpelling well; for he would not be par- 
tial to difficulty, and would examine the old and new 
modes with more philofophy, than our blind prejudice will 
allow us to make the teft of reafon. | 
3d. Diale&ts [page 279] would be utterly deftroyed, 
both among foreigners and peafants. 
4th. Every one would write with a perfe@tly correct 
orthography |p. 279.]— 
sth. Children, as well as all the poorer claffes of people, 
would learn to read in fo fhort a time, and with fo little 
trouble, having only to acquire the thirty letters, 
that this alone ought to filence all the objections that can 
be brought, and, particularly with the foregoing reafons, 
muft be deemed more than “ equivalent to the confufion 
“‘ and perplexity of Juch an alteration.” But, independent 
of what is faid above, I admit neither confufion nor per- 
plexity to be the confequences of fuch a change: thofe 
who were never before taught to read, could have no idea 
of any other method, and thefe who now read would find 
no more difficulty in the two modes, than is found in read- 
ing by any fecret charaéter. Even fhort-hand writers, if in 
practice, find no difficulty in reading words which do not 
contain a fingle common vowel: fimple marks are ufed, 
and they attend not to the prefent abfurd orthography of 
any word ihow much more eafy then to read words which 
contain the fymbols of every found, and efpecially when 
moft of the common chara¢ters are ufed! befides, thofe 
whofe thirft after knowledge is quenched, may hereafter 
amufe themfelves with the books now publifhed. I thould 
have been aftontfhed at the DoGor’s obfervations, if I had 
not been acquainted with his prejudices, 
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