English The Universal Language

Tli e tollowing table taken from The New Era, b popular wort i-eeently j: sui-ct i.. Dr. JoslaJi Stroug, shows liow vnpidly the Bmgllsh Language is ming me miiversal language of the world : It -svill be noii. cil ha! the English bas rasen f rom the fii'th rank to the first, íüi.l that it is now spoken by 86,000,000 more people than is the Cerina:;, while in 1S01 the Germán was spoken by 10,000,000 more than as the Bnglieh, an while the ;,;n language lias ehanged fi-om third fl rank wlthin the ury, it only maintained its own, U - per ( cü' . being I ';■ b unie now as at the opening of this centnry. Vlil li ■ i ■. . n ■ ,. w'ni h was the court lamguage oi nearly all nat.ions oí the world at that tdme, dropped from lirst place to fourth. This i ir i at ■ a decadence oí the Frénela on, but telle the story oí the t.ivi.y ui the Anglo-Saxons and the Germana to spreading their inïluence and power thronghout the univi The miarvell'OUS spread of the 1 i;.-h language is not entirely accounted tor by the growth of the English rare. by any meane. "Bdflhap Taylor said, a dozen years iso, tliat tliere were then in India a million natives wlio spoke EnglSsh, and the deelre to learu tlie laoguage was constantly gpffwlng." Dr. Stroag remarks tlie "Anglo Saxon is the great misskniary race." And furtlier : "No race hos ever sliown snch philanthropy, no raoe is so easily moved by great moral ideas, none is so capable o-f a moral eiitlrasiasm, none is so quiek to accept responslbllfty for the Igaiorant, tlie degraden, the sufferimg, or to makO generous self-sacriiice in their behalf as the Anglo-Saxon. Isone is so capable of disintereeted endeavor. ïhe race is forever organizing a society to help some ome. No doubt it eacriíices more livea amd imoi-e treasure ior the uplifting t! imaukin-.l than all ether races combtned." lï we i-eckon the growth of European population ior the next century a1 íta rate oí increase irom 1870 to 1880, and the Anui: Saxon at much ihan it rate of Loerease during the same ten years, a hunclred years h.pnee this mie race will outnuimber all the peoples of. Continental Europe by 100,000,000 souls !