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elaborate inquiries into phonetics of a purely theoretical kind,—and with all their elaboration hardly doing more than breaking the ground,—takes up the question of what degree of precision is desirable in the practical representation of sound, and produces several "glossic" systems for representing known English words, for representing English dialects, and for representing foreign European dialects. So, intermediate between purely theoretical logico-psychological studies of the laws of the expression of thought, on the one hand, and the skill of the trained literary genius on the other, everybody recognizes a science of rhetoric, which is so far distinct from an art that the most profound rhetoricians are far from being, as a class, extraordinarily successful writers, but which is undoubtedly of great assistance to the art. Rhetoric like every practical science is usually and