Higher Education and a Common Language (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Higher Education and a Common Language Among the innumerable progeny of novel ideas and speculations which have owed their origin to modern facilities of communication, is the suggestion which may be met with from time to time in European newspapers, and possibly also in American ones, , that men will see so much of each other in the future, and feel so strongly the necessity for means of completer intercourse, as to gradually abandon many of the languages now spoken, confining themselves to two or three of the most highly developed, and finally, perhaps, resting satisfied with one. This idea has arisen at the same time with political conceptions of equal novelty, and of a strikingly similar character. The parallel political theory is that the world will come to consist of a very few great States, which finally, either by friendly agreement or the military predominance of one of them, will place the supreme government of the whole planet in the hands of a single council, perhaps even of a single individual, in whose person will be concentrated the world-power which was the dream of Alexander and Cæsar and Napoleon, yet only partially realized by the mightiest of those three conquerors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.