ABSTRACT
Sir T. More was reduced to argue the comparative feasibility of change and of improvement upon far less strong data than the course of events and knowledge has enabled us now to rest it on; and looking at this point from the vantage ground of present experience, I maintain, that, quoad feasibility, an incalculable preponderance of reason belongs to the argument of the Orientalists, who hold that, whatever the difficulty of improving the popular languages, the change of them-in other words the conquest of the most tenacious of habits amongst that people which, of all upon the face of the Earth, is most wedded to habit -is a hundred times more difficult.
