Cryptonomicon Revisited В старых закладках нашел
запись о "Криптономиконе" Вилкинса.
С тех пор гугло сильно расцвело, и интернет вместе с ним, и теперь эта книжка доступна в сети:
Mathematical and philosophical works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins.
Вместе с его же описанием Истинного Языка, и какими-то другими работами.
(Или, для любителей, в изначальном виде:
John Wilkins, MERCURY the Secret and Swift Messenger.)
А вот как Криптономикон заканчивается:
However, it will not follow, that every thing must be supprest which may be abused. There is nothing hath more occasioned troubles and contention, than the art of writing, which is the reason why the inventor of it is fabled to have sown serpents teeth. And yet it was but a barbarous act of Thamus, the Egyptian king, therefore to forbid the learning of letters: we may as well cut out our tongues, because that member is a world of wickedness.
If all those useful inventions that are liable to abuse, should therefore be concealed, there is not any art or science which might be lawfully profest.