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Rh for instructing teachers, while other twenty years were allowed for teaching the young. But after this date, the new language was to be adopted as the universal language of the world.

"Fortunately, at this period and for some centuries thereafter, peace and industry reigned on the earth, otherwise this great change in the language of the world could not have been accomplished. As it was, however, all the world's governments adhered religiously to their enactment, and after two hundred years the new language was so thoroughly established, that the older languages became as in the past, only open to the more educated, who study them as dead languages.

"To proceed with the rest of the history of the world, without first explaining to you some curious changes that came over the people's convictions in two essential points, would only mean relating events without giving the causes from which many of them sprung. These changes of convictions were on the questions of religion, and of food and drink.