It follows, among other things, that in Egypt, as in China and Japan, literary style and mere penmanship and brushwork are to be conceived as inseparable.

No doubt the Egyptian scholar was the man who could not only compose a poem, but write it down with a brush.

Talent for poetry, deftness in inscribing, and skill in mural painting were probably gifts of the same person.

The photoplay goes back to this primitive union in styles.
The stages from hieroglyphics through Phoenician and Greek letters to ours, are of no particular interest here.

But the fact that hieroglyphics can evolve is important.