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tional committee to devise a universal language for business, epistolary, 
conversational and scientific purposes. As the time once was when 
the ancestors of all Aryans spoke the same tongue, so we believe that 
the period is now near when once again a unity of speech can be es- 
tablished, and this speech become that of man everywhere in the civy- 
ilized world for the purposes herein set forth. 
Your Committee therefore offers the following resolution : 
Resolved, That the President of the American Philosophical Society 
be requested to enclose a copy of this Report to all learned bodies with 
which the Society is in official relations, and to such other societies and 
individuals as he may deem proper, with a letter asking their co-opera- 
tion in perfecting an international scientific terminology, and also a lan- 
guage for learned, commercial and ordinary intercourse, based on the 
Aryan vocabulary and grammar in their simplest forms; and to that 
end proposing an international congress, the first meeting of which 
shall be held in London or Paris. 
D. G. Brinton, Chairman, 
HENRY PHILLIPS, JR., 
MONROE B. SNYDER, 
Committee. 
Supplementary Report of the Committee appointed to Examine into the 
Scientific Value of Volaptk, ete. 
The former Report having been recommitted, your Committee avails 
itself of the opportunity to explain more clearly the aim of the previous 
paper, to meet some of the objections offered against particular state- 
ments, and, at the request of several members, to enlarge the scope of 
the Report, so as to embrace a brief consideration of the two other 
universal languages recently urged upon the public, the “ Pasilengua’’ 
of Steiner, and the ‘‘ International Language ” of Samenhof. 
The aim of the Committee was strongly to urge the desirability of 
taking immediate steps to establish a universal language, both for 
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learned and general purposes. These steps, it asseverated, should be 
taken by the learned world asa body; the form of language adopted 
should be endorsed by the scientific societies of all nations; by their 
recommendation it should be introduced into schools and universities, 
and competent private teachers would soon make it familiar to all who 
would have oceasion to use it. The Report distinctly states (p. 4) that 
it is in nowise expected that this international language will supplant 
any existing native tongue. It is to be learned in addition to the native 
tongue, and not in place of it. 
The aim of the grammatical portion of the Report was simply to 
maintain three theses; first, that the pronunciation of the proposed. 
tongue should be so simple that it could be learned by any one speaking 
