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PBOTOTYPOGRAPHT. 



a unity of typography, a unity of language. The demand for reading- 

 matter — perhaps English reading-matter — great as it is, must in the 

 future be vastly greater. But we must believe that man in the future, 

 as in the past, will continue to develop contrivances answerable to 

 his needs. Photography and electricity may be enlisted yet further 

 than they already have been in the service of letters ; and appliances 

 for satisfying the mental hunger of the human race, having photo- 

 graphy and electricity as co-efficients, may possibly be thought of, 

 which to us now would seem to involve the incredible, but which, to 

 our descendants, will be things of course, and classed by them among 

 the ordinary conveniences of every-day life. 



