Capitolo 5
the language of the great business centers--of Athens, Syracuse,
Alexandria, Antioch, Byzantium. The I radiate Latin Of the west, not because
Catullus and Virgil spoke Latin, but because Latin it was the
administrative language, the language of Rome, of Italy and later of Gaul,
of Spain, of the great cities in Dacia Pannonia, Britain. Whoever wanted
to make then anything on the great staircase, due to speak Greek or the Latin; then
very this way that the mother languages of Gaul and Spain died out suddenly,
and now Latin dialects are the language spoken in southern Europe. In
our really time, again Hindooses gathered aside different of India have
to use English as a mean for intercommunication; and native dealers
it has to write their correspondence of business with distant houses in English.
To put an extreme contrast: in him the French of last century you/he/she had spoken of big long
more people of the English; a French present day you/he/she is holding only only
on his/her numbers in France, you/he/she is losing in Canada and the United States, it is
not advancing to any extension in Africa. English has spoken within one hundred
million people in Europe and America; you/he/she is end-racing Africa; it has
Annexed Australasia and the Pacific Islands; you/he/she has chased, or you/he/she is chasing,
Dutch to the Head, French in Louisiana, also Spanish same in Florida,
California, New Mexico. In villages of mud Egyptians, the Copt aspirator that
once the learnt French, learns now English. In Scandinavia, our earningses of language
earth daily. Everywhere in the world it assumes the direction the among the
European languages, and from the middle one of the next wish of century without doubt
has spoken on the globe half from a cosmopolitan mass of five hundred
million people.
And all on purely begin of Darwinian! It is the best adapted language,
and therefore it survives in the struggle for existence. It is the
easier to learn, at least orally. It has rid of the weakened garbage
of son-in-laws; simplified immensely his/her declinations and conjunctions;