Philosophy of the Human Voice

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. But the mass-meeting, not to lessen its little dignity, by drop ping even a letter, is still a mass, and will have its own stubborn and head-strong way. The work therefore, of which I here offer the fourth edition, much enlarged, must, I suppose, be tried, and I fear condemned by its rules. For if the voice of the times, joining immediately in the advancement of any point of knowledge, is the test of its truth, merely because the mind of the times, has up to the last step, produced the advancement.