В. Г. Гузев. Избранное

492 В. Г. Гузев. Избранное: К 80-летию domain of the evolution of its inner form which is more concealed for ob- servation, more conservative and, finally, more important from the point of view of better understanding the peculiarities of the culture and history of the Turkic peoples. Searching for those ways in the domain of the outer ( graphic ) form of writing signs, which is more liable to the influence of dif- ferent factors (from writing means up to contacts with foreign cultures) and for this reason more changeable, seems to be less prospective and can be realized only as a subsidiary measure 1 . The latter is especially important to be stressed because the fruitless at- tempts to solve the problem of the origin of the Turkic runic script, remain- ing within the problems of its inner form, has been undertaken long before its decipherment by V. Thomsen on the 25th of November, 1893, and have continued up to present day. 1 Friedrich J. Op.cit., p. 47.