It beseemeth ... the ... officials of the Government to
convene a gathering and choose one of the divers languages, and likewise one of
the existing scripts, or else to create a new language and a new script to be
taught children in schools throughout the world. They would, in this way, be
acquiring only two languages, one their own native tongue, the other the
language in which all the peoples of the world would converse. Were men to take
fast hold on that which hath been mentioned, the whole earth would come to be
regarded as one country, and the people would be relieved and freed from the
necessity of acquiring and teaching different languages.... - Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’, The Compilation of Compilations, vol. I,
Baha’i Education)
