A Story Outline of Evolution 



unity of purpose and political disunion among the Greeks 



or Hellenese, and for this reason It passed through many 



changes before it reached the degree of perfection above 



mentioned. There were forty local alphabets among these 



known. 



people, which is evidence of its appeal when Its force became 



The Greek alphabet was introduced into Italy about 

 the eighth century B. C, where it became the Latin and 

 finally the alphabet of the Roman Empire. Here again, 

 it was subjected to many changes and adaptations until it 

 became the most important of all alphabets. It was passed 

 on and adopted by the countries of Western Europe and 

 then to us, still carrying vestiges of its growth through all 

 of its various stages from the cuneiform characters of Baby- 

 lon and the Egyptian hieroglyphs to the present time. 



As human experiences broadened and as they were 

 woven into a closer fabric of commercial and social inter- 

 course, new ideas were formed that called for additional 

 methods of expression. But ideas must be expressed in sen- 

 tences and sentences are made up of nouns which are used 

 to express the names of persons or things; of adjectives 

 which are used to qualify or describe the things represented 

 by the nouns; of verbs, used to express action, being or con- 

 dition; of adverbs, used to modify the meaning of verbs, 

 adjectives, or other adverbs, and so on through all the other 

 parts of speech. Words grew In numbers faster than sym- 

 bols could be made to represent them and there were many 

 words that could not be expressed by the symbols then in 

 use. This led to a modification of the symbols already 

 invented and then In use and to a separation of many of 



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