"Is such a thing possible?" I asked him. "Never mind which language is to be selected. I want your authority to silence those who look upon anything of the kind as chimerical."
"Well," he said, "you must go to younger people for an answer to that. You know that I have given it as my opinion that Esperanto is the best attempt at a universal language yet made, and that is as much as I can say." I pressed him, perhaps rather unduly, but without success.
But as I was leaving his hospitable house he handed me back a little album (a godfather’s gift from Mendelssohn), in which I had asked him to inscribe his name, and I read—"Is a universal language possible? Yes.—M.M."
Felix Moscheles.
Oxford, July 2, 10 p.m
Is a universal language possible? Yes. M. M.
Felix Mendelssohn:
Wenn Menschen aus einander gehn
So sagen sie, Auf Wiedersehn,—auf Wiedersehn.
Felix Moscheles: