Have Ye Never Read? (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Have Ye Never Read? Among human inventions the most astonishing of all is the alphabet. Nothing else which has been framed by art or man's device appears so wonderful as this. To choose scratches of certain shapes and to arrange them so that they convey ideas from one mind to another - this was an achievement which makes other discoveries seem trivial in comparison. And it was accomplished by long-forgotten folk in the dim dawn of history. Today we take the alphabet for granted as though it were part of the universal' order, like the stars or the sea. We assume, with Dogberry, that to read and to write comes by nature. Yet there was a time, as Mr. Kipling reminds us in his Just So Stories, when all men on earth were unlettered. As easy as a b c has passed into proverbial speech, but how our own a b c originated remains a dark and thorny question. Professor Flinders Petrie confesses that no one would choose the present time to make a pronouncement on so confused a subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.