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Show LANGUAGE FOR ALL RACE8. 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 bo taken up by practical educational educa-tional roformors. It is Interesting, however, to recall that tho world onco had a unlvorsal language, and dropped it. Latin occuplod that position of pro-cmlncnco until some tlmo aftor tho end of the Middle Ages, aud it wns really as a moillum of commercial Intercourse In-tercourse rather than as a moans of mental discipline that the teaching of Latin was enjoined In tho grammar schools of the, Tudor period. Dy tho eighteenth century the tongue had been abandoned by traders, but was still omployed by a few scholars who wished to waft their ideas over a frontier. fron-tier. Finally, and by imperceptible degrees, the scholars themselves ceased to use It, tho German commentators com-mentators on classical texts being tho last to givo it up. |