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The article offers information regarding the role of legends in the making of history. Legends were the spiritual foundations of every ancient city, empire, people and the promising safe guidance through the limitless space of the future. Legendary explanations of history served as corrections of facts and real events which are needed because they hold man responsible for the deeds he had not done and for the consequences he had never foreseen.

The article provides historical background on the rise of industrialism in Europe and in the U.S. and on how such developments have brought changes in quality of life. It states that Western people have reached a certain degree of prosperity in the twentieth century after a concerted effort that started in the fourteenth century. It asserts that along with such growth, comes the emergence of problems, such as rapid population growth and the invention of weapons that put human life at risk.

Before entering on the subject of Transliteration, I propose to submit a few preliminary remarks on the formation of graphic systems generally, and the rules which ought to regulate their application. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]