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Show A 2TCW WOKUD LANGUAGE. '.The work of forming new and scientific scien-tific .languages -for -universal use foes merrily on, and the newest candidate for a position with Volapuk and Esperanto Esper-anto is "Latin without Inflections, the result of the labors of Prof. Giuseppe Peano, a mathematician of Turin. He has proposed to do away not only with genders, persons and cases, as was suggested sug-gested -by Leibnitz, but also with the moods and tenses. - Such' a proposal would give a language which would be the extreme of simplicity, and inasmuch as Latin is universally, taught In elementary ele-mentary schools, it could readily be Introduced, In-troduced, so "that according to Prof. Peano, th,ere would be no reason why Latin, modified by this system, should not once again be the medium of communication com-munication of the learned world. Harper's Har-per's Weekly. |