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Show Ancient Stenography. Shorthand was known to tho an clcntt, though It It Impotelblc to trace tho nyetem to Its eource Cnnlut, Ihe Human foet. la said to hata Impriveil ill on an already ualtt Ing a) atom. He waa a frlind uf 8cl plo, and was bi rn II. C 139. Seneca also msde It n hobby Orlgen, the drink Fathrr and Mys tic. who was born sbout IIS and was i voluminous writer, ss)s, In the course nf hit commentary on HI John: 'Th nl.AAtien nf mv ehnrllinml writers pnvents mo from dictating my tnedl-tntlona." tnedl-tntlona." We are told, tco, that he atluwed shorthnnd wr.tirs to lake down hit citi'inporo homilies. In tho tenth century (treek and Human ttenocrarhy gradually died out, nnd the art did not revlto until the beginning nf the sewntcenlh century. cen-tury. During this king Interval several sev-eral syslems of quick writing wero ewihed, such as that of Dr. Timothy llrlght In USS, who had n separate slyn for ctery went, and tome o. these almost r haled shtrlliand In rapidity. |