An artificial language may be more regular, more perfect,
and easier to learn than a natural one.—MAX MÜLLER.

The world is spinning fast down the grooves of change. The old disorder
changeth. Haply it is yielding place to new. The tongue is a little
member. It should no longer be allowed to divide the nations.

Two things stand out in the swift change. Science with all its works is
spreading to all lands. The East, led by Japan, is coming into line with
the West.

Standardization of life may fittingly be accompanied by standardization
of language. The effect may be twofold—Practical and Ideal.

_Practical._ The World has a thousand tongues,
Science but one:
They'll climb up a thousand rungs
When Babel's done.

_Ideal._ Mankind has a thousand tongues,
Friendship but one:
_Banzai!_ then from heart and lungs
For the Rising Sun.

W. J. C.

NOTE.—The following pages have had the advantage of being read in
MS. by Mr. H. Bolingbroke Mudie, and I am indebted to him for many
corrections and suggestions.