518 REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN 
non-capital letters tend rather to illustrate one 
of my important positions rather than controvert 
them, the capital letters having reference to the 
use of the style in clay, while the others have 
reference to the pen and ink. 
Once having established a connexion between 
the forms of the Greek capital inseriptional 
characters and those of the Babylonian or arrow- 
head, it follows as a matter of course, by direct 
sequence, that the Roman alphabetic characters 
owe their primitive origin to the brickmakers of 
Babylon ; for what is true of the Greek is, as a 
mere matter of consequence, true also in regard 
to the Roman, in every one of whose inscriptional 
characters the arrow-headed origin is traceable, 
and most clearly evident, the only observable 
difference being a gradual although slight devia- 
tion from the non-parallelum of the bottom stroke 
of the letters, which become, very nearly, and in 
most cases, quite in line with that of the inscrip- 
tion, of which it is not requisite to furnish any 
figure, as that of No. 13 will convey what I 
allude to as to the existence of the non-parallelum 
in the case of the Aand Y. Reference to any of 
our modern capital letters, will substantiate what 
I have endeavoured to set forth and prove, namely, 
