THE FUTURE OF LANGUAGE.
"It is improbable that tin l present acute crisis will continue long enough to give any serious impulse to an nrtilicial •universal' language, such as Esperanto or Ido, nor in llie claim of any widely diffused national language to assume that function. No humanist will favour such pretensions on the part of any one language, nor lend himself to the argument, of the superior expressive power of this or that idiom, lie feels too well the potency and beauty of each of the great languages of culture, finalities not absent from humbler accents, which ever they are the spontaneous utterance of humanity. Meantime, science is everywhere bringing hack to living u-e Greek and Latin roots. To the shaping of these vast impersonal agencies, science and art, may lie safely committed the future of language.”—Mr E. V. Keys in the "North American Review.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1925, Page 4
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146THE FUTURE OF LANGUAGE. Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1925, Page 4
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