Humanity: Its Foundation And Stream
Humanity: Its Foundation And Stream
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" In Egyptian hieroglyphics, as may be seen in part by the alphabet, there are, in some instances, as many as twenty-five different characters used to represent one teller, and these are termed 'homophones' of that letter.
"One immense advantage accrued in monumental legends from this variety, for the artist was thus enabled to employ those figures which, while representing the articulated sound of the letter, had by their form a relation to the idea these signs were to express. The writer coul...d thus, by Digitized by Google Humanity : Its Fountain and Stream. 49 the judicious selection of his letters from the variety of his homophones, convey a meaning of ad- miration, praise, dignity, beauty, strength, etc , or he could denote disgust, hatred, insignificance, or other depreciatory opinions.
"I will endeavor to render this apparent by an example. Suppose we wished to adopt the same system in our language and write the word ' America' in hieroglyphics. I use pure Egyp- tian hieroglyphics as letters, adapting them to English values : A — We might select one out of many more or less appropriate symbols ; as an asp, apple, altar, amaranth, anchor, archer, arrow, antelope, axe.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" In Egyptian hieroglyphics, as may be seen in part by the alphabet, there are, in some instances, as many as twenty-five different characters used to represent one teller, and these are termed 'homophones' of that letter.
"One immense advantage accrued in monumental legends from this variety, for the artist was thus enabled to employ those figures which, while representing the articulated sound of the letter, had by their form a relation to the idea these signs were to express. The writer coul...d thus, by Digitized by Google Humanity : Its Fountain and Stream. 49 the judicious selection of his letters from the variety of his homophones, convey a meaning of ad- miration, praise, dignity, beauty, strength, etc , or he could denote disgust, hatred, insignificance, or other depreciatory opinions.
"I will endeavor to render this apparent by an example. Suppose we wished to adopt the same system in our language and write the word ' America' in hieroglyphics. I use pure Egyp- tian hieroglyphics as letters, adapting them to English values : A — We might select one out of many more or less appropriate symbols ; as an asp, apple, altar, amaranth, anchor, archer, arrow, antelope, axe.
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