ATA time when nearly every nook and corner of the globe has been made accessible and when international relations are becoming from year to year more general and more intimate, it seems only natural that the idea of a universal language, as a means of common intercourse for all mankind, should have been revived, so as to be hailed in many quarters with delight and enthusiasm. “Revived,” I said, for we must not imagine that the present generation is the first to embrace a similar idea. Every one of us is familiar with the story of the tower of Babel, as told in Genesis, chapter 11, beginning with the statement “And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.” This condition was contrary to the will of the Lord, especially after the people had begun to build a city and a tower whose top was to reach unto heaven. “So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore was the name of it called Babel: because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth.”