Yet, this common language would probably not exclude national languages. There is again the curious fact that just now, along with the growing unities of the human mind, the development of national self-consciousness is leading to the formation or rather the revival of national languages everywhere. I wonder if that is the case now. There seems to be much more repercussion in the other direction. Today we are elaborating and perfecting physical methods of transmitting words.
Translation is a bother.
If you had a method of making them intelligible to all people at the same time, it would be really wonderful. Music of different nations has a common psychological foundation, and yet that does not mean that national music should not exist. The same thing is, in my opinion, probably true for literature. Modern music is going from one country to another without loss - from Purcell to Bach, then Brahms, then Russian music, then oriental. Music is of all things in the world most international.