520 REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN 
Thus have we a most striking example of the 
interest which beams forth from objects of the 
most familiar kind, when viewed in their proper 
light as regards their etymology of form. 
FIG. 15. 
SENOS OTS 
&T EF 
The above rude letters are selected from an 
ancient Greek inscription, in which the arrow- 
heads are very distinct, the depressed angle in all 
being cut with great care, and in that respect 
most distinctly indicating the arrow-headed origin. 
In respect to those letters in which we find the 
circle employed either wholly or in part, we can 
in all such cases trace the arrow-head, such for 
instance as seen in the case of the Omega above, 
it being compounded of a portion of a circle with 
two very distinct arrow-heads at each side; in 
short, so absolutely is this discovery as to the 
Babylonish origin of the form of the Greek, 
Roman, and modern classic alphabet, borne out 
by fact, that we have but to look at any of our 
