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...human as any other part of the languages. There has probably never been a community of men that has not had some means of intelligent communication, and the most primitive way was by pictures. These at first represented objects, then actions, then adjectives and prepositions, and finally determinatives, expressing genera and species, were introduced, which eliminated much of the former obscurity. The next stage of development was the 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...
...will be devoted mostly to literary articles. The news department will be small as the paper will be published only semi-monthly. A prominent feature will be regular correspondence from Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia. The first number was issued March 1st. The arrangement is neat and the genera appearance good...