Capitolo 23
and stamping. Because these work from it went away to straighten? For first you sight such
it clearly practises it seems contrary to the instinctive tendency that I have noticed
above--the tendency to deduce to the left from right, in agreement with the
natural sweep of the hand and arm. And, indeed it is a fact that everybody,
the first writing took the direction opposed by what is habitually
now universal in western countries. Every pupil knows, for example
(or at least him it is able if he came above to the standard of corrected Macaulay),
that Hebrew is written to the left by right, and that every book starts to
the wrong cover. The reason is that it puts in words and letters, and
hieroglyphics was originally carved, you/they were scratched, or you/they were engraved, instead of
being written with coloured it inks, and to the hand it was permitted so to follow
his/her natural tendency, and to proceed, as all of us do in naive sketch, with a
free curved from the correct leftward.
Nevertheless, the very same fact--that we use alone the correct hand in
writing--it made the raced letters the opposite way in the end; and the
change was due to the use of ink and the other pigments for staining
papyrus, parchment or paper. If the hand in this case him moved by right
to he/she left him/it it would clearly dirty what you/he/she had already written; and to
prevents so messy some words, the order to write it was
reversed by left rightward. The use of wax tablets also, without doubt,
helped in before the revolution, for in this case, the hand is also able
covers and you rub out the written words.
The severe dependence to write, indeed on the assumed material it is
in any place shown better that in the case of the Assyrian cuneiform
registrations. The substitute to the agenda for note cream-silver ware in the
Euphrates' valley in its days rich in palms was a clay or tablet of earth-crush, on
what the words to be recorded--usually an action of sale or anything of
the kind--you/he/she was thrilled while it was being wet and then it cooked to the oven in, solid. And