Spencerian Shorthand - For Amanuensis, Court, and Verbatim Reporting #271881

Since the last edition of this little book, the Spencerian Quick Writing system has made enormous progress, not only with professional stenographers but with the general public.<br><br>In the edition preceding the present, the author was content to state as simple facts the claims of the system.<br><br>So stated, they appear to all writers of other systems extravagant enough!<br><br>Yet there is nothing so hard as a fact.<br><br>Whether in the material world or in the impalpable realm of the intellectual, facts are equally indestructible.<br><br>Men and all their fallacies die, but their facts live on.<br><br>It was never the intent of the inventor and developer of this system, laboring single-mindedly, with one great goal ahead of a life's ambition, to devise merely a new stenography, whose excellencies were to be entered in a race with those of all the other splendid systems born of the genius of man.<br><br>His real aim, however, and whether or not he had attained it, he preferred at that time to state rather as detailed facts of an achievement.