. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. r. Passing further into the elements ofthe civilized life we note the origin amongthe Chaldees of that pecul- The chaidees in-iar stvle of writing called J^nt the cunei- fc- form system of Cinicifonn, from the re- writing,semblance in shape of its characte
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. r. Passing further into the elements ofthe civilized life we note the origin amongthe Chaldees of that pecul- The chaidees in-iar stvle of writing called J^nt the cunei- fc- form system of Cinicifonn, from the re- writing,semblance in shape of its characters tothe wedge. This stvle of writing wasdestined to take up and convey to mod-ern learning much of the best knowledgeof antiquity. It was destined, moreover,to extend as a system of written expres-sion, not only to the kindred races ofAsshur on the north, but also to the Ar-yan races of Media and Persia, also tothe highlands of Armenia, and far intoSyria. In another part of the authorsworks he has exemplified with sufficientfullness the nature and philosophy ofcuneiform writing. In the present con-nection it remains to note the fact thatthis writing was, according to our bestinformation, invented by the properly, it was perfected by them ; ? See Ridpatlis Cyclopcrdia of Universal History,Vol. I, pp. 130-131, 238 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. which the sys-tem -was developed. for antiquarian research has shown thatthe rudiments of the system already ex-isted among the aboriginal tribes of Ac-cad, who possessed, or at least traversed,the Babylonian plain l)cfore the develop-ment of Chaldee nationality. It is thoughtthat these Accadians were out of the hill-country of Elam, and that they broughtwith them a rude, idiographic writingwhich was adopted and amended by therace of Arphaxad on its entrance intoLower ^Mesopotamia. At the first the writing in question wasa picture writing, in which objects wereProcess by portrayed by actual resem- blance or symbolically.
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