English Will Soon Be Universal

Gladstoiie computes that the habitual speakers of the English language have üicreased from 10,000,000 to 105,000,000 during the last lOOyears, and that they will number 120,000,000 by the end of the year 1900. At that rato of increase, which is sevenf old each century, afloh speakers will include not less tban 840, 000, 000 by the end of the year 2000.