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Talking, if you will carefully think of it, you will find to be just / sending messages to one another by means of sounds. You learned to / talk -- that is to say, to send messages in this way -- when you were a / child, before you learned to write. So did the early Egyptians and / all early peoples. But the difference between you and them is that / you had some one to teach you to write, and they had not. They had / to invent a way of doing this for themselves.
When you were a child you saw the sun rising, winter and summer / following each other, and all the rest of the events in Nature, and / you had some one to tell you how they all happened. The early / Egyptians and the others saw all these things, but they had no one to / tell them how they happened. They had to puzzle them out, or try to / do so, for themselves.