The Evolution of Chinese Writing - The Inaugural Lecture of the Michaelmas Term of the School of Chinese; October 4th, 1910 #263431

But his invention had a quality in it which those inven tions lacked: it was capable of change, and through change was preserved.' It is noteworthy that amid all the changes which Chinese writing has undergone since Ts'ang Chieh first traced his 'resemblances', the pictographic element has remained its characteristic feature. It is fundamentally a pictographic script much disguised.