The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-02-12

r1'of England before Alfred tb'
eln % or OF France before Charlie
HSgne' mt only has this result &C
ou' que have in addition a food o
{: tbrown on the subject OF the
iign! VI 81 the art writing. The good
origI9 DIR. Spring. former pastor
oia ~ Brick Church in New York,
oil inc !ho al a book some forty years
puOn;Sn wbich, with great simplicity.
ago. - his readers that "lhe
ne S If the art is to oe attributed to
orgy SDimUself, and that He was the
GOD n, instructor of Moses during
oriGi,D 'tv DAYS in which he was upon
the 'G S;"sj" But Ohsmpoelion has
MI , o,D writings. ''scriptural
pIoou.H and ''painted alphabetic
leIIsiin coeval with generations THAI
!lgp ,se DAYS OF Abraham had long
ID ~ N exist. l presume that the
cea.; ;on that the art writing was a
oplnIoI revelation is the true one; but
D J.' las, it WAS a revelation Eade
i IIn betore the d ys OF Noah and the
10G1 olose this very imperfect sketch
,,b IF Rosetta stone and its immeuSe
o. s W. and importance hy an at
i ia,nt to give you some conception OF
t S ayb.ol1tely gigantic labers of th
I..."sto3Iogists by which we have been
0 ol in possession OF the "Ho"m Oh
Egypt. Ito uri,inO WAS nron.
liz n' developed in the following
0iT Fyj,r,..-Material objects struck the
and in order to transmit the
; se"' ol one of these objects, they
Iuta the figure of the thin
half g TRis would be hguratlve writ
i"s s.eOond-The insuficiency of this
ia" in application was Immediately
pie Pi4H For 10 painting the figure OF a
mai mai they could not express what
nan: so that they would connect
9TH him some other sign associated
Tjtb this peculiar man, e. g., crown
n scepter, to indicate that tn man
Intended was king.
Tbird-Tnen, in due course Of
fme. arbitrary conventional signs
ssre added to represent the idea OF
N immaterial object; e. g.
,stchst TOR god, and an asp for
oyslty. i
Fourth-TheD, finally, they tried
represent the elementary sounds OF
lords, taking to represent any
stter that object the name
{ which began with the sound
fthe letter they wanted TO represent.
bus, to represent the sound OF L,
be picture of lion. Or OF s. the
icture of star. Now, in the Egyp-
40 hieroglyphics, inasmuch as IN
,e language there would be many
ords beginning with the same
und, the picture Of any one OF
hich might be taken to represen
10 sound, We find as many as
Isnty.fiVe characters to represent
le same letter; and these are called
omophones of that letter-from two
reek words which mean "the same
md"
This popularity gave a wonderful
iety TO the Inscriptions on stone,
ID also enabled the engrsVer to ex-
-ess shades OF meaning in the rep
sentation of a name, which the
are word itself would not and
Md not convey. By the skillful
lection of his letter from the va
:ty of homophones be could carry |
Q meaning of admiration. praise,
unity courage; or, he could denote
gust, hatred, insigni6osnce, con-
npt, etc. To illustrate this by an
lglish parallel; suppose be wanted
write in hieroglyphic the name of
N, and 70 represent him as 6e; ce.
ong and obstinate, he would paint
, picture OF q tiger, an ~ and a
lie; if. however, he I'D to
little Tom, he would rsprese him
the homophones, the pictL.- of
ID, an onion, and msggot. Tom.
gly and venomous. of unpleasant
Or, and mean, creeping, ven-
lous thing.
suppose now that We wished to
opt the graphical system Of the
yptisns and to inscEibe on q mon
tent the name of city renowned
its schools Of medicine, whose pro-
sional men are as wise as Minerva
rsell; whose wealth Ia exuberaut;
ose good cheer is famous; whose
.chanic arts are fourishing; whose
to for music is notorious; whose
.hitecture is predominentIy Gre
q, city distinguished for brave
u and fair women, and whose
.atness is yet In embryo; for the
Ter L. We would have the choice of
ny names OF objects beginning
h l., as lamb, locust, lance, Ian
, lake, leg, etc., and take lancet
presenting her schools Of medicine;
the letter o, We should have OK,
ole, olive, owl, etc., to choosefrom,
should select owl, as denoting
nerva, the goddess OF wisdom; for
We should have u'n, upas. udder.
L.. from which We might select
der, as symbolic of wealth; for :,
should have sickle. sun, star, saw,
=, and should select saw, as svmbc- !
ng the mechanic arts; for Y, ne /
ght select from volume, viper, I
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