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She likes to have some one handy on such occasions. She needs
an echo. I am becoming quite a good echo."
"You are," said Keith, rather sharply. "Quite a pretty echo. And you
ought to be a voice. Follow my prescription, Denis. The Cave of
Mercury."
Count Caloveglia remarked:
"What a pity that Latin, as scholars' language, for the definition and
registration of ideas, was ever abandoned! It has the incalculable
advantage that the meanings of words are irrevocably fixed by
authority. New ones could be coined as occasion required. Knowledge
would gain by leaps and bounds. There would be a cross-fertilization of
cultures. As things now stand, half the intellectuals of this world are
writing about matters which, unbeknown to themselves, have already been
treated by the other half. One would think that Commerce, which has
broken down geographical barriers, might have done the same to
political ones. Far from it! In sharpening men's lust for gold, it has
demarcated our frontiers with a bitterness hitherto unknown.


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