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 not be contradictory to the fundamental principles of my language and the facilities it affords for International relations. After all these suggestions have been pondered over and the last changes made, the Language will then take on its permanent and deﬁnite form. But even if these changes do not entirely give satisfaction, it must be remembered that the Language is not entirely finished, but that while the author no longer will have any say in the matter, an Academy, yet to be constituted will have plenary powers. * * *

I now conﬁde to the kindly disposed public this labor that has cost me so much thought, time and trouble, in the hope that every one to whom the welfare of humanity is dear, will afford to my project every possible assistance. Each one can tell, according to his surroundings, in what way he can be useful; I only must insist on the utmost utility of a full vote being obtained. Let every one do what he can, and before long we shall have arrived at the idea so long the vision of the learned–a language common to the whole human race.