ABSTRACT
I. When, after the end of the war, the whole relationship between the nations as it was before 1914 is renewed,—and it will be renewed, just simply because the nations can’t do without each other-then the question of a world-language, or let us rather say of an art-made means of communication between the peoples, will again become a burning one. It was well on the way to being solved when the catastrophy occurred and seemed for a short time to paralyse all such efforts. To stop them altogether, that even the world war could not do, for in spite of censorship and in spite of the nations’ mutual hatred and suspicion the idea of an auxiliary language is not dead, but has its enthusiastic adherents, who have firm faith in its realization and hope that immediately after the coming of peace it will have new vitality. Quite recently I received very many evidences of this from Germany, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Turkey, U.S.A., and not least from England, where-from natural causes-the movement hitherto has not been very extensive.
