The idea, as it reached me, was prettycrude in several respects. It ignored the high possibility of asynthesis of languages in the future; it came from a literary man,who wrote only English, and, as I read him--he was a little vague inhis proposals--it was to be a purely English-speaking movement. Andhis ideas were coloured too much by the peculiar opportunism of histime; he seemed to have more than half an eye for a prince or amillionaire of genius; he seemed looking here and there for supportand... read more
