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Rh whatever. So, my Specimen, you see the whole English speaking peoples of the world, that were known as such, and as dependencies of England in your day, were formed into one great United Kingdom. But while all these reforms were steps in the right direction, their troubles, as you will see later on, were not at an end, although their position was much improved by the many changes that had taken place under the government of the intellectual party.

"Before going further with my sketch of the history of the past, I must here give you a little information as to the causes of the great change you have noticed in our language. The confusion of tongues on earth caused much inconvenience to all nations; this was aggravated by the improved and rapid means of travelling that were introduced. By universal consent all the governments of any importance in the world enacted that there should be one, and only one, language used throughout the globe. The next difficulty that arose was to