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...representation by signs of syllables, instead of whole words or ideas. The final step, the employing of signs to represent single letters is no harder to trace than the preceding transitions. The Egyptians had the first real alphabet, real in the sense of having a sign for each letter. Babylonian and even Arabic have signs for only three of their vowel sounds. The Phoenician people in their commercial relations and in their position as intermediaries between the great nations of the earth, were the first to make a script that was extensively used in the world. Without exception all alphabets...
...Address on the Improving of Christian Society, In this pamphlet Luther attacked the whole body of canonic law, and preached, as he knew well, nothing less than a complete revolution in the church and in society. Two more pamphlets published in the same year entitled "The Babylonian Captivity," and "The Liberty of the Christian Man" gave proof of Luther's wonderful productivity. In these three works of 1520 were set forth what is truly vital and permanent in Luther's doctrine. But the people of Germany were not ready for the new teaching, and Luther himself seeing the confusion...
Semitic Seminary. Babylonian Cosmogonic Myths. Professor Lyon. Sever...
Semitic Seminary. Babylonian Cosmogonic Myths. Professor Lyon. Sever...
Yesterday afternoon, Professor Lyon continued his course of lectures on Babylonian Books, and he devoted the hour to exhibiting and explaining many interesting relics of the inhabitants of Babylonia and Assyria who lived somewhere between the years 1400 and 2000 B. C. Many of the specimens which Professor Lyon exhibited have arrived from London since his last lecture, and they are especially rare as showing the nature and customs of a prehistoric people. Rev. Dr. Ward of America and M. Mamont, have done much to collect seals and vases which contain the various modes of expression adopted by the early...