Why should I not make French my auxiliary language, like Turgenieff and Hillebrandt!

Neither Bahá'u'lláh, nor even 'Abdu'l-Bahá, ever stated that Esperanto will be the international auxiliary language.

We must endeavor with all our powers to establish this international auxiliary language throughout the world.

Adopting an international auxiliary language would go far to resolving this problem and necessitates the most urgent attention.

An international auxiliary language aims at supplanting the first type of study completely, and, as it claims, with profit to the students.

The undersigned, deputed by various Congresses and Societies to study the question of an international auxiliary language, have agreed on the following points:

These delegates met on January 17, 1901, and founded a "Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language."