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origin of our Alphabet and Alphabetic Writing — one of the greatest and most useful of human inventions — has long been the subject of countless conjectures, but has hitherto remained wholly unsolved. The new evidence now discloses by concrete proofs that unknown origin, the meaning of the letters or signs, the objects that they represent with their original names and meanings, and their racial authorship, which is found to be not Semite, as hitherto supposed, but Aryan.

The letters of the Alphabet are found all unsuspectedly to be diagrammatic forms of the old picture-writing of the Sumerians or Early Aryans for those word-signs which possessed the single vowel and the single consonantal phonetic values of the Alphabetic letters. And the author of the alphabetic system is seen to have belonged to the same Aryan "Sumerian" race which evolved that earliest civilized picture-writing with those phonetic values. The inventor of the alphabet is traced to the leading mercantile and seafaring branch of the ruling Aryans or Sumerians, namely, the Hitto-Phœnicians; and his personality appears to [be] found in King Cadmus, the Phœnician sea-emperor of about 1200 B.C., after whom the Greeks named their early alphabetic letters.

The effect, therefore, of these constructive discoveries is destructive of the current established theories of modern historians and philologists on the racial origin of the Higher