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Universities (AMERICAN groups of idealists)

AMERICAN groups of idealists, however, contend that there should be a language which, if it does not quite become the native tongue of all peoples, should at least be universally taught and so widely known that intercourse between peoples would become practically as free as in any single country. To supply this want artificial languages have been created, one of the first of which was Volapük. More recently a more perfected system was created, known as Esperanto, whose vocabulary is made up of a mixture of the Latin languages, English and German.

This language may be learned with greater ease than any of the national forms of speech and is now more or less fluently spoken by millions of people in all parts of the world. In 1920 it was adopted as the official international language of the Russian Soviet Government, which has made it one of the studies in the schools of Russia.