The Egyptian Language Restored

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I present myself, most sacred Caesar, to your most august gaze with the second of my works; with that one I offered the MAGNET, with this one I bring the LANGUAGE, and both represent something as mystical as it is rare and grand. The MAGNET ATTRACTED, may this LANGUAGE—the index of mystical wisdom and the first of the languages of Kings—indicate those imperial virtues of the Caesarean mind. And to whom, finally, should a LANGUAGE of this kind be owed, if not to the ONE...