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: 0 0 into thin Ayre; 
And, like the baselesse fabricke of this vision, 
The Clowd-capt Towres, the gorgeous Pallaces, 
The solemne Temples, the great Globe it selfe, 
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolue, 
And like this insubstantiall Pageant faded, 
Leaue not a racke behinde.— Tempest, Act 4, Sc. 1, 1623. 
11. “ Here then are England and Wales, with their sixteen millions of people, with near- 
ly eight millions unable to write their name, and not less than five millions unable to read 
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their mother tongue. In the United States, even in the states which supply the educa- 
tion at the expense of the treasury, the number of illiterate people is very large. The 
time for attending school is limited among the poor, and schools are rare where the popu- 
lation is sparse, so that minds of a high order may remain undeveloped. Energy indeed 
may overcome great difficulties, but this may form no part of a mind of high generalising 
and inventive powers. 
12. The millions of freemen kept in mental and moral darkness, instead of loving an or- 
thography, know not what it is, whilst the great mass of readers despise it;—some think- 
ing it a trick of the schoolmasters to extend the period of tuition—whilst others regard it 
as a means of separating society into a lettered and an unlettered class.+ 
13. A child aged thirteen, who can read, has within a few days spelt as follows :—b-a-o-t 
boat, (not knowing the position of the “silent” letter,) l-oo-k, l-o-k, lock, (putting “double” 
before o is not suggestive of a different sound,) m-u-r-o-u-r mirror, (“you” and “eye” are 
equally unsuggestive of the first vowel of this word,) c-h-i-r chair, (saying c-h-ai-r instead 
of ¢-h-a-ai-r.) 
14. Among the most mournful of theatrical scenes, such as are most likely to call up feel- 
ings akin to those of the poet who sung— i 
Srdce moy szareze ach hui deos sadnissa! 
Kard man hiort ag cuige diz sathinassus? 
are those in which an illiterate character slowly spells out a letter, commencing “ D-ee-r 
C-u-r,” and is greeted with a shout of laughter from people who would spell cur (which 
has a cay sound) with a consonant called see, and a vowel called you, and they pronounce 
this s-you-r as cur’. 
* British Q. R. Noy. 1846, Art. VIII., p. 472, quoted in Hllis’s Plea, 2d ed. p. 56. 
+ “It is better for criticism to be modest . . . till the pardonable variety of pronunciation, and the true 
spelling by the vulgar haye satirized into reformation that pen-craft which keeps up the troubles of orthography 
for no other purpose, as one can divine, than to hoast of a very questionable merit as a criterion of education.’ — 
Dr. James Rush, Philosophy of the Human Voice, Philadelphia, 1833, p. 383, 
