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| | TIME.com: Esperanto Spurned -- Aug. 13, 1923 -- Page 1 |
 | | Zamenhof, a physician of Bielostok, Russia, where the clash of four races (Russians, Germans, Poles, Jews), suggested the necessity for a neutral tongue. |
 | | Idiom Neutral, the most recent attempt at an international tongue (1902), is the simplest language yet devised. |
 | | It is based on a thoroughly impartial and systematic study of English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Latin. |
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