Excerpt from The Story of the Alphabet Man lived by bread alone and without the alphabet untold ages, and with apractical alphabetic system not more than years. So important and wonderful was this step deemed by those who lived nearer the time of its inception - in the time before the wonder Of its extraordinary powers had been blunted by long possession and common use - that its invention, as well as that of writing, was in variably attributed to divine origin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.