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ideas themselves. And in this way there would be a strong tendency 
to retain the form unchanged. 
If we examine carefully the Egyptian and Semitic vocabularies, 
we shall discover a considerable Semitic element as an essential factor 
of the Egyptian language, not Semitic proper names or terms intro- 
duced during the time of the Thothmes and Rameses of the 18th and 
19th Dynasties, or even prior. But we shall find a Semitic element. 
in the terms used to denote the simplest objects, and to which every 
race must have applied names from the time when phonetic sounds. 
were employed to denote either some quality or the essence of an 
object. 
The following table will help to show this relationship by a few 
examples : 
EGYPTIAN. HEBREW. ASSYRIAN. SANSKRIT. Lat, ENGLISH. 
ma water mayim me 
ab apriest ab afather abu 
mut mother em ummu afather méatri mater mother 
mut to die muth mutu mari morior murder 
EGYPTIAN. HEBREW. ASSYRIAN, SANSKRIT. Greek. Lat. 
Bet a place Baith a house Bitu) Bhi to be. F étkoc 
Neb a Lord Nabi aprophet Nabu Naripa a prince 2 
Ar tobe,todo El a god ilu Isvara a god, one ille 
who possesses 
Thus far, I think, I have proved the truth that the Hieroglyphic 
language is Semitic, to a considerable extent, both in its essence and 
grammatical structure, which so far gives evidence in support of the 
race unity between the Egyptians, the Semitics, and also the 
Assyrians and Babylonians. Besides, I think, we have seen here 
and there in the features of some of the Aryan languages sufficient. 
resemblance to the ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic to warrant us in 
the opinion that if she be not their old mother, she is, at least, a 
very ancient relative, whose form, to some extent, as a hereditary 
inheritance, they retain even to this day. Thus the ancient Egyptians. 
were related in race and language with the warriors of the Euphrates. 
valley, and the Semites of Syria, Palestine and Arabia, and also with 
the Greeks, Latins, Teutons, who, in later days, made their power in 
arms, in literature and art, felt among the nations that have risen 
since. 
The Egyptians employed three distinctive species of writing,. 
Hieroglyphic, Hieratic and Demotic. The first was used on massive: 
