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The
first
professor
I
saw
,
was
in
a
very
large
room
,
with
forty
pupils
about
him
.
After
salutation
,
observing
me
to
look
earnestly
upon
a
frame
,
which
took
up
the
greatest
part
of
both
the
length
and
breadth
of
the
room
,
he
said
,
"
Perhaps
I
might
wonder
to
see
him
employed
in
a
project
for
improving
speculative
knowledge
,
by
practical
and
mechanical
operations
.
But
the
world
would
soon
be
sensible
of
its
usefulness
;
and
he
flattered
himself
,
that
a
more
noble
,
exalted
thought
never
sprang
in
any
other
man
's
head
.
Every
one
knew
how
laborious
the
usual
method
is
of
attaining
to
arts
and
sciences
;
whereas
,
by
his
contrivance
,
the
most
ignorant
person
,
at
a
reasonable
charge
,
and
with
a
little
bodily
labour
,
might
write
books
in
philosophy
,
poetry
,
politics
,
laws
,
mathematics
,
and
theology
,
without
the
least
assistance
from
genius
or
study
.
"
He
then
led
me
to
the
frame
,
about
the
sides
,
whereof
all
his
pupils
stood
in
ranks
.
It
was
twenty
feet
square
,
placed
in
the
middle
of
the
room
.
The
superfices
was
composed
of
several
bits
of
wood
,
about
the
bigness
of
a
die
,
but
some
larger
than
others
.
They
were
all
linked
together
by
slender
wires
.
These
bits
of
wood
were
covered
,
on
every
square
,
with
paper
pasted
on
them
;
and
on
these
papers
were
written
all
the
words
of
their
language
,
in
their
several
moods
,
tenses
,
and
declensions
;
but
without
any
order
.
The
professor
then
desired
me
"
to
observe
;
for
he
was
going
to
set
his
engine
at
work
.
"
The
pupils
,
at
his
command
,
took
each
of
them
hold
of
an
iron
handle
,
whereof
there
were
forty
fixed
round
the
edges
of
the
frame
;
and
giving
them
a
sudden
turn
,
the
whole
disposition
of
the
words
was
entirely
changed
.
He
then
commanded
six-and-thirty
of
the
lads
,
to
read
the
several
lines
softly
,
as
they
appeared
upon
the
frame
;
and
where
they
found
three
or
four
words
together
that
might
make
part
of
a
sentence
,
they
dictated
to
the
four
remaining
boys
,
who
were
scribes
.
This
work
was
repeated
three
or
four
times
,
and
at
every
turn
,
the
engine
was
so
contrived
,
that
the
words
shifted
into
new
places
,
as
the
square
bits
of
wood
moved
upside
down
.
Six
hours
a
day
the
young
students
were
employed
in
this
labour
;
and
the
professor
showed
me
several
volumes
in
large
folio
,
already
collected
,
of
broken
sentences
,
which
he
intended
to
piece
together
,
and
out
of
those
rich
materials
,
to
give
the
world
a
complete
body
of
all
arts
and
sciences
;
which
,
however
,
might
be
still
improved
,
and
much
expedited
,
if
the
public
would
raise
a
fund
for
making
and
employing
five
hundred
such
frames
in
Lagado
,
and
oblige
the
managers
to
contribute
in
common
their
several
collections
.
He
assured
me
"
that
this
invention
had
employed
all
his
thoughts
from
his
youth
;
that
he
had
emptied
the
whole
vocabulary
into
his
frame
,
and
made
the
strictest
computation
of
the
general
proportion
there
is
in
books
between
the
numbers
of
particles
,
nouns
,
and
verbs
,
and
other
parts
of
speech
.
"
I
made
my
humblest
acknowledgment
to
this
illustrious
person
,
for
his
great
communicativeness
;
and
promised
,
"
if
ever
I
had
the
good
fortune
to
return
to
my
native
country
,
that
I
would
do
him
justice
,
as
the
sole
inventor
of
this
wonderful
machine
;
"
the
form
and
contrivance
of
which
I
desired
leave
to
delineate
on
paper
,
as
in
the
figure
here
annexed
.
I
told
him
,
"
although
it
were
the
custom
of
our
learned
in
Europe
to
steal
inventions
from
each
other
,
who
had
thereby
at
least
this
advantage
,
that
it
became
a
controversy
which
was
the
right
owner
;
yet
I
would
take
such
caution
,
that
he
should
have
the
honour
entire
,
without
a
rival
.
"
We
next
went
to
the
school
of
languages
,
where
three
professors
sat
in
consultation
upon
improving
that
of
their
own
country
.
The
first
project
was
,
to
shorten
discourse
,
by
cutting
polysyllables
into
one
,
and
leaving
out
verbs
and
participles
,
because
,
in
reality
,
all
things
imaginable
are
but
norms
.
The
other
project
was
,
a
scheme
for
entirely
abolishing
all
words
whatsoever
;
and
this
was
urged
as
a
great
advantage
in
point
of
health
,
as
well
as
brevity
.
For
it
is
plain
,
that
every
word
we
speak
is
,
in
some
degree
,
a
diminution
of
our
lunge
by
corrosion
,
and
,
consequently
,
contributes
to
the
shortening
of
our
lives
.
An
expedient
was
therefore
offered
,
"
that
since
words
are
only
names
for
things
,
it
would
be
more
convenient
for
all
men
to
carry
about
them
such
things
as
were
necessary
to
express
a
particular
business
they
are
to
discourse
on
.
"
And
this
invention
would
certainly
have
taken
place
,
to
the
great
ease
as
well
as
health
of
the
subject
,
if
the
women
,
in
conjunction
with
the
vulgar
and
illiterate
,
had
not
threatened
to
raise
a
rebellion
unless
they
might
be
allowed
the
liberty
to
speak
with
their
tongues
,
after
the
manner
of
their
forefathers
;
such
constant
irreconcilable
enemies
to
science
are
the
common
people
.
