...in the tangled wilderness of the hieroglyphic writing the letters of the alphabet lay concealed. All that remained to be done was to take one simple step...the ideograms, the homophones, the polyphones, the syllabics, and the symbolic signs to which the Egyptian scribes so fondly clung, and so to leave revealed,...

...above, so that the Egyptian scribes were on the verge of final discovery in writing. " All that was to be done was to take one simple step— boldly to discard all the non-alphabetic elements and so to leave revealed in its grand simplicity the nearly perfect alphabet, of which, without knowing...

...phonetic elements. Canon Taylor states: "All that remained to be done was to take one simple step—boldly to discard all the non-alphabetic elements, at once to sweep away the superfluous lumber" (41, p. 68). This step they never took, but continued to use eye-pictures side by side with that of...

...the tangled wilderness of the hieroglyphic writing the letters of the alphabet lay concealed. .All that remained to be done was to take one simple step...the ideograms, the homophones, the polyphones, the syllabics, and the symbolic signs to which the Egyptian scribes so fondly clung, and so to leave revealed,...

...in the tangled wilderness of the hieroglyphic writing the letters of the alphabet lay concealed. All that remained to be done was to take one simple step — boldly to discard all the non.ilphabetic elements, at once to sweep away the superfluous lumber, rejecting all the ideograms,...