Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world. . . .enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.
-Abraham Lincoln, lecture before Springfield Library Association, Feb. 22 1860
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