It beseemeth … the … officials of the Government to convene a gathering and
choose one of the divers languages, and likewise one of the existing scripts,
or else to create a new language and a new scripts or else to create a new
language and a new script to be taught children in schools throughout the
world. They would, in this way, be acquiring only two languages, one their own
native tongue, the other the language in which all the peoples of the world
would converse. Were men to take fast hold on that which hath been mentioned,
the whole earth would come to be regarded as one country, and the people would
be relieved and freed from the necessity of acquiring and teaching different
languages….