So did the lever, and probably alphabeticwriting, and the number system.
2
There were, doubtless, many steps taken in slow succession before the invention of alphabeticwriting.
3
Before the spread of alphabeticwriting, systems making much use of logograms were more common and included Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and Sumerian cuneiform.
4
The first three periods-theformation of primitive societies, followed by the pastoral age, and the agricultural age-concludewith the invention of alphabeticwriting in Greece.
5
Hieroglyphic figures, and even characters in regular lines, are seen sculptured on their sides; though I doubt whether they bear any analogy to alphabeticwriting.
6
Alphabeticwriting, although more simple and stabilized, is really more difficult than ideographic writing.
7
Alphabeticwriting annihilates this frame of experience based on resemblance.
8
Were Hieroglyphics employed before or after AlphabeticWriting?