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Soon you will be a teenager next year. Full-fledged you will start to fly in the sky. The best compass is a thorough understanding of the growth and the enigma of the human language.

But before you start to read let me ask you a question on the world famous painting of "Easter Procession in the District of Kursk" by Ilya Repin. Why did the artist compose in that way? Is there a principle which answers to part of the secret of the world language, especially words?

"It is beautiful!" I recall five years ago you said, and I thought it is your eyes are truly beautiful. I like to see your eyes to find out what kind mark will show next. If all goes well there will be happy smile. Gradually you will know the secret of the last six thousand years.

This is not a boring textbook. You will see pictures, some of which are drawn by you, so with a drawing pad ready. It will not even be a regular history in the accepted sense of the word.

Together we shall wander forth to explore the intricate mystery of the words. Mysterious rivers of words which seem to come from one common spot and which are joined by many branches and finally entered ocean.

I shall bring you away from classroom, entering magic kindom of words. We shall leave the track to scale a solitary peak, towering high above plateau.

No guarantee we shall sometimes beset by a dense fog of ignorance. Wherever we go we must carry our torch in nin night and understanding for vast tracts of land will prove to be a sterile desert--swept by icy storms of popular prejudice and we shall forsake our faith in humanity and that, would be the worst thing that could happen to any of us.

Instead to be an infallible guide, rather I advise you to take counsel with other travelers who have passed along before. Only by the comparison of theirs with mine and if this leads you to dispute, that is a welcome.

Never you want be preached but reach destiny by your own. You know what this book expects of you, that you shall do your share of the task and shall do it bravely and cheerfully.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I

II

XVII

Origin

It took Columbus much longer than us to cross the ocean for we have a map and airplain.

We understand a great deal about various subjects and we are familiar with a thousand different branches of science.In one respect, however, we are quite as ignorant as the most primitive
of men--we do not know the secret of the words well. We do not know how or why or
when the human language began its travel upon this Earth. We are still obliged to follow the example of the
past and hink in the old way.

"Let there be light." This gave us some physical track and evidence of the meaning of word structure.

What the word light and white in common? Deep in these two we have found a few pieces of clues.

They were hidden amidst masses of letters that have long ignored to be analyzed. We have taken these clues and
they allow us to reconstruct the strange creature who happens to be
our tools, the words.

The ancient alphabet was a series of pictures. A is horn of ox. B is a room...
When you utter A, you may be alert or angry ...which is more basic state than be happy for you are no longer a baby. Dark is more dangerous than day. Black annd red is more eye catching than the rest. As Chinese wo is composed partly by ge, an ax,dagger-ax,so is word I which is ...man, a kind of animal and is bellow God,

Once A started, by A of the ox horn,there is E for coninuation and smoothness.