The Piasa

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Excerpt from The Piasa: Or, Devil Among the Indians Our syllabaries or alphabets are but a series and system of types, symbols and emblems which, by the aid of machinery and printers' ink, bristle with thought and are the vehicles of recording history. Sign or gesture language is the primary method of direct communication, from the beginning to the present, while object language is, and ever has been, the indirect mode of not only communicating but preserving history. The former is of more universal use than the latter, for it always has and always will exist and be utilized by the entire human family, civilized or savage, and extends to every animal existence, flesh, fish and fowl. While gesture language is direct, it is but transient, because not recorded so as to be preserved. On the other hand object language is direct in its communication and most graphically and indelibly recorded. The entire series of object language may well be embraced in the term now in general use - pictograph - or a writing by pictures, which conveys upon sight and instantaneously records by graphic means the thought, act or deed intended by the artist, without words, syllables or letters, and maybe delineated upon any hard substance - wood, stone, metal, bone, slate, dried hide, etc. When delineated upon rock or stone these pictographs have been aptly named petroglyphs by the learned German archaeologist, Dr. Andree, of Stuttgardt, which means rock delineations, or pictures. By signs or gestures the infant first attempts and finally succeeds in attracting attention and indicating its wants, and no other means of communication is known between persons entirely ignorant of each other's language and deaf mutes. The secondary method is by sounds or oral language, which is of the greatest importance and universal use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.