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attainment. But one would require scientific reading 

 material in order to gain practice in scientific reading, and 

 there we are again faced by a vicious circle. For, in order 

 to create such reading material, we require authors who can 

 write it, and yet the latter can only learn to express them- 

 selves in the international language by means of already 

 existing reading material. We must therefore at first make 

 use of the language of daily life and carry over into science 

 whatever is found to be suitable for scientific purposes, after 

 which more sharply defined meanings may be assigned to 

 the words. It has been indicated in the previous article 

 how the remaining special scientific nomenclature can be 

 determined. When this preliminary work is sufficiently 

 advanced the following way will lead quickest to the goal. 



There will be founded an international journal, divided 

 into as many divisions as correspond to the groups of 

 sciences to be dealt with. We have here in view more 

 particularly the theoretical and practical sciences of nature, 

 because they have much more urgent need of an inter- 

 national auxiliary language than the " humanities," whose 

 representatives are more likely to possess a sufficient know- 

 ledge of languages. For example, mathematics, mathematical 

 astronomy, mathematical geography, mathematical physics, 

 geodesy, etc., might form one group ; general and experi- 

 mental physics, chemistry and physical chemistry, electro- 

 technics and applied chemistry, mechanics and mechanical 

 engineering, etc., a second group ; mineralogy, petro- 

 graphy, crystallography, geology, etc., a third group ; 

 biology, systematic and physiological zoology and botany, 

 morphology, etc., etc., a fourth group. Extensions of these 

 groups and other modes of arrangement might of course be 

 introduced. 



The foundation at first of several separate periodicals 

 would not be advisable. 



The following remarks may be made concerning the 



