Capitolo 4
you/he/she has annexed America, Australia, Southern Africa, the Pacific the most greater part of north;
Spaniard has annexed South America, Central America, Philippines,
Cuba and some other places. To a large extent these areas I am less
been all right that the English-speaking districts for colonisation of north
European; but they absorbs a big number of Italians and other
Mediterranean races that all learn Spanish in the second generation. As
to the other dominant languages, the points in their favour are,
different. Conquest and the administrative necessities are scattering on Russian
the steppes of Asia; the Arabic dealer and the growth of Mahommedanism
you/he/she is caring far Arab in the heart of Africa; Chinese is
his/her own monosyllables that bring with him to California, Australia,
Singapore. These languages in expectancy it will divide the world among them.
The German that leaves Germany becomes an Anglo-American. Italians that
leaves Italy becomes a Spanish-American.
There is another and he/she anchors more impressive way to seem to the express
increase of the English. Any other language will bring her through so many
hands in the world. Enough for London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Belfast,
Southampton, Cardiff; for New York, Boston, Montreal, Charleston, New
Orleans, San Francisco; for Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Hong Kong,
Yokohama, Honolulu; for Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Kurrachi, Singapore,
Christopher Columbus, Head City, Mauritius. Spanish with Cadiz, Barcelona, Havana,
Callao, Valparaiso cannot touch that records; neither it cans French with
Marseilles, Bordeaux, Havre, Algiers, Antwerp, Tahiti. The more anymore
language commercially profit in the world, so diffused widely in this way
very great merchantman and sending centers, it is sure to win in the
struggle for existence among the languages of the future.
The old civilisation of Mediterranean teaches us an useful lesson in this
respect. Two languages dominated the basin of Mediterranean. The East ray
Greek, not because Plato and AEschylus spoke Greek, but because Greek it was