Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 393
es us to put our thoughtson paper quickly and plainly, that alphabet whichmakes books and newspapers possible, and hasgiven us the power to have many, many copiesof this page of St. Nicholas printed off. If westill used picture-writing, a magazine would befilled from first to last with the pictures… … We might now be in the same condition that ourancestors were in five hundred years ago,— onlyable to consult a book now and then in a monas-tery, and then finding it chained to a desk lestsome one should run off with it. You saw how the savage would indicate a bat, bydrawing its image. Well,…
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