Show LANGUAGE FOR ALL RACES boril once had a universal pal lan a guage and dropped it suggestion thrown out at the british association asso elation that italian should be adopted aa as the universal language bays says the london graphic ie Is net likely to be taken up hy by practical educational reformers refon nere it Is interesting however io wever to recall that the world once had a universal language and dropped it latin occupied that position of preeminence pre eminence until name time after the end of the middle iddle age ages and it was really as a medium of commercial ino o 0 t recourse rather than aa as a means of mental dixel pline that the teaching of at latin was enjoined in the grammar schools of the tudor period by the eighteenth century the tongue bad had been abandoned by traders but was still employed by a few scholars who wished to waft their ideas over a frontier finally and by imperceptible degrees the scholars themselves ceased to use uze it the german commentators menta tors on classical texts bing b ing the last to give it up |