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...MONDAY.The Alphabet (illustrated). Lecture. Professor Toy. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
SEMITIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO CIVILIZATION.A course of four lectures will be given by Professor Toy on Semitic Contributions to Civilization. The subjects are: The Alphabet, February 24; Monotheism, February 28; Sacred Books, March 3; The Jews in Modern Life, March 7. In the Jefferson Laboratory...
...three monotheistic religions of the world, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are of Semitic origin and that they today (if we except Confucianism in China). control the progressive nations of the earth. To understand the beginnings of Greek art we must go in part to Babylonia and Assyria. Our alphabet came from a Semitic community. The Phoenicians were the intermediaries between the peoples of the ancient world, the founders of ocean commerce, the bearers of culture from the Euphrates valley to the Pillars of Hercules. The Syrians introduced the Arabs to the study of Greek science and philosophy; the Arabs...
...Egyptians and the Chinese. Each sign stood for an object or idea. By a development some of the signs came to stand for syllables. Beyond this the Babylonians refused to go, but the Persians, on adopting the script, rejected most of the signs and reduced the rest to an alphabet of about forty-six letters. The place and date of the origin of the script are unknown. The oldest recovered specimens are from about 4000 B. C., and come from Tello in Southern Babylonia. The essential feature of the script, after the period of picture writing was past...
...essential difference between the Ninevite and the Babylonian forms of language. After the Persian conquest of Babylon, in 538 B. C., the language continued to flourish till the beginning of our era. Those who used it held also to their ancient script, too conservative to adopt the alphabet. But it is a crowning glory of the Semitic peoples that one of their number invented the alphabet and thus placed the whole world under obligation for all coming time...