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The point of view here presented is not that Of a systematic alphabet, invented by some single tribe or individual in a developed civilisation. On the contrary it appears that a wide body of Signs had been gradually brought into use in primitive times for various purposes. These were interchanged by trade, and spread from land to land, until the less known and less useful signs were ousted by those in more general acceptance. Lastly a couple of dozen Signs triumphed; these became common property to a group of trading communities, while the local survivals Of other forms were gradually extinguished in isolated seclusion.
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