... there has been a great clamor for a universal language ... we once had it, in our learned world, in the Latin, in which books were locked up for the scholars and dead to the world ... language is the handmaiden of thought, and to be useful must be obedient to its changes as well as its elemental characteristics ... for the English of three hundred years ago we need a glossary, and to carry down his immortal thoughts in their pristine vigor, must have, every two hundred years, a Johnson to modernize a Shakspeare ...