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 256 CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. little to have justice done to a language which our profession uses already so much in its lexi- cology in preference to any other ; to have this language seriously considered when the question of an international language for scholars of all nations is brought up — a language which gives terms to all new inventions and discoveries, and which cannot be replaced by any other ; which is already, to a certain extent, an international language. Ttc oI(5e, iaug ^/lipav riva 7rpayfiaronoiTi6y to upalov 61 rjfia^ bveipov tovto. — A. BiKeAag. The question of adopting the living Greek of to-day as the international language of scholars has become the subject of much discussion. Many American and European journals, even journals printed in Turkey, have entered into the discussion. Professors of philology in Ger- man universities and colleges have found it worthy of reply, and have published their views on this subject in scientific philological periodi- cals — a subject which was warmly discussed in the New York Academy of Medicine on April 2 1 St, 1894, when I read before it a paper bearing on this matter. On the whole, the responses have been favor- able to our cause. The great number and the