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device, the alphabet. It is quite a useful little gadget, its chief
advantage being that it allows any reasonably bright person to
learn to read and write, whereas hitherto the scribe has been a

specialist with a lifetime’s professional training. And it is, inci­
dentally, the key to democracy, and philosophy, and history, and
half the arts.