"Time's up! I have missed my after-lunch walk, and I expect only hardened your heart.
"Yours,
"——."
And I had!
XII
will an international language discourage the study of modern languages, and thus be detrimental to culture?—parallel with the question of compulsory greek
There is a broad, twofold distinction in the aims with which the study of foreign languages is organized and undertaken.
It serves: first, purely utilitarian ends, and is a means; secondly, the purposes of culture, and is an end in itself.
An international auxiliary language aims at supplanting the first type of study completely, and, as it claims, with profit to the students. The second type it hopes to leave wholly intact, and disclaims any attempt to interfere with it in any way. How far is this possible?
The answer depends mainly upon the efficiency of the alternative