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Simplified Spelling and Reason) 
=) PELLING should be a matter not of sentiment but of science; not } 
of prejudis, but of reison. The simplification of spelling is a | 
scientific idea; and the application of scientific ideas is the only | 
way to educational and social improvement. | 
The men verst in English filology are the foremost in rei 
the regulation of English spelling, so that it shall better serv its | 
purpose. Many thousand teachers in colleges and schools have ) 
signd the agreement to use simplified spellings. Among these are nearly a _ | 
thousand of the activ members of the National Education Association. Many | 
hundreds of the men in the scientific bureaus of the government, many civil, | 
electrical, and mechanical engineers, many officers of the army and navy, and | 
nearly one thousand of the men of science whose names are included in the 
biografical directory of “American Men of Science,” have signd the card agreeing | 
to use the simpler spellings recommended by the Simplified Spelling Board. | 
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Every one who has investigated the subject with open mind and in the spirit of | 
a scholar has come to the same conclusion, which is that English spelling is | 
unnecessarily defectiv, irregular and vexatious; that it ought to be improved; 
that it can be improved ; and that it will be improved, either directly, by the efforts | 
of scholars and educators, or indirectly, and in a longer time, as the Be 
result of the a Sap progress in knowledge. 
The Simplified Spelling Board was organized to expedite this natural rogtsill 
and to apply even to English spelling the ordinary processes of reasoning, im 4 
order that persons now living, that children now being taught,and those who wil 
be taught in the schools in the next five or ten years, shall reap the benefit, im 
their lives, of an improvement which is certain to come, in any case, at a latet 
period. 
The Simplified Spelling Board and the Advisory Council include many emi 
nent filologists and educators, leading men of science, distinguisht men of letters 
and men of affairs; and they are working together to inform and educate public 
opinion in this matter, and to put into practis their proposals of reform. ; 
The Simplified Spelling Board publishes many circulars of information, which, 
with a card of agreement, will be sent to any one free upon request. Any om 
who signs the card thereby signifies his approval of the principle and practis 0 
simplified spelling, has his name recorded on the roll of permanent adherents, 
and receives free the regular publications of the Board. Address i 
SIMPLIFIED SPELLING BOARD, | 
, | 1 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, N. 
