The Reporter : Or Phonography Adapted to Verbatim Reporting (Classic Reprint)

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In addition to these inestimable advantages, Science and Religion are indebted to this inestimable art for the preservation of many valuable Lectures and Sermons, which would otherwise have been irrecoverably lost. Among the latter may be instanced those of Whitfield, whose astonishing powers could move even infidelity itself, and extort admira tion from a Chesterfield and a Hume but whose name would have floated down the stream of time, had not short-hand rescued a portion of his labours from oblivion. With so many vouchers of the truth of the remark, we can have no hesitation in stating it as our Opinion, that since the invention of no cause has contributed more to the diffusion of knowledge and the progress of refinement, we might also add, to the triumphs of liberty and the interests of religion, than the revival and improvement of this long-neglected art.

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