(4) It has no history, no link with the past.
(5) It is artificial, which is a sin in itself.
III. Political.
(1) It is against English [Frenchmen read "French">[ interests, as diverting prestige from the national tongue.
(2) It is socialistic and even anarchical in tendency, and will facilitate the operations of the international disturbers of society.
IV. Literary and linguistic.
(1) Lacking history and associations, it is unpoetical and unsuited to render the finer shades of thought and feeling. It will, therefore, degrade and distort the monuments of national literatures which may be translated into it.
(2) It may even discourage authors, ambitious of a wide public, from writing in their own tongue. Original works in the artificial
language can never have the fine savour of a master's use of his mother tongue.
(3) Its precisely formal and logical vocabulary and construction debauches the literary sense for the niceties of expression. Therefore, even if not used as a substitute for the mother tongue, its concurrent use, which will be thrust on everybody, will weaken the best work in native idioms.