The European languages are members of the same family.
Their separate existence is
a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary. The
languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common
words. Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could
refuse to pay expensive translators. To achieve this, it would be necessary to have
uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words. If several languages
coalesce, the grammar of the resulting language is more simple and regular than
that of the individual languages. The new common language will be more simple and
regular than the existing European languages. It will be as simple as Occidental;
in fact, it will be Occidental. To an English person, it will seem like simplified
English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is.The
European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a
myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary. The
languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common
words. Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could
refuse to pay expensive translators. To
A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet
mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the
charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like
mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere
tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a
single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater
artist than now.
When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun
strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few
stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall
grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown
plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the
stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and
flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image,
and the breath of that universal love which bears and sustains us, as it floats
around us in an eternity of bliss; and then, my friend, when darkness overspreads
my eyes, and heaven and earth seem to dwell in my soul and absorb its power, like
the form of a beloved mistress, then I often think with longing, Oh, would I could
describe these conceptions, could impress upon paper all that is living so full and
warm within me, that it might be the mirror of my soul, as my soul is the mirror of
the infinite God!
O my friend -- but it is too much for my strength -- I sink under the weight of the
splendour of these visions! A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire
soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am
alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the
bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the
exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents.
I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I
feel that I never was a greater artist than now.
When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun
strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few
stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall
grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown
plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the
stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and
flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image,
and the breath of that universal love which bears and sustains us, as it floats
around us in an eternity of bliss; and then, my friend, when darkness overspreads
my eyes, and heaven and earth seem to dwell in my soul and absorb its power, like
the form of a beloved mistress, then I often think with longing, Oh, would I could
describe these conceptions, could impress upon paper all that is living so full and
warm within me, that it might be the mirror of my soul, as my soul is the mirror of
the infinite God!
O my friend -- but it is too much for my strength -- I sink under the weight of the
splendour of these visions! A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire
soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am
alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the
bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the
exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence,
