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Show LANGUAGE FOR ALL RACES. World Once Had a Universal Language Lan-guage and Dropped It. Tho suggestion thrown out at tho British association that Italian should bo adopted as tho universal language, says tho London Graphic, is not likely like-ly to be taken up by practical educational educa-tional roformers. It Is Interesting, however, to recall that tho world once had a universal language, and dropped It. Latin occupied that position of pro-cmlncnco until somo tlmo after tho end of the Middle Ages, and It was really as a mo.llum of commercial intercourse in-tercourse rather than as a means of mental discipline that the teaching of Latin was enjoined in tho grammar schools of the, Tudor period. By the eighteenth ceittury the tongue had been abandon! by traders, but was still employod by a few scholars who wished to waft tbelr ideas over a frontier. fron-tier. Finally, and by imperceptible degrees, the scholars themselves ceased to use It, tho Oennan commentators com-mentators on classical toxta being tho last to give it up. |