B534 <=> B536 (BTG XXXI Last sojourn to Earth, p. 535)

“But this ancient Greek language continues at the present time to be spoken by the beings of a contemporary small community called ‘Greece,’ who, though they are descendants of the former ‘great Greeks,’ have not now at their disposal as many of what are called ‘guns’ and ‘ships’ as those ‘important communities’ whose representatives were just then assembled in order unanimously to select one common language for the whole planet.

“Therefore, in all probability each of these representatives deliberated somewhat as follows:

“’Heavens above! can anybody use a language which is spoken by the beings of such a trifling community? It hasn’t even guns to entitle its representatives to equal participation in our “international five-o’clocks.”’

“And indeed such contemporary beings there, namely, such as become representatives of important communities, know nothing of course of the true reasons why, that is, on their planet, beings similar to them, dwelling on one or another part of the surface of their planet or who make up this or the other community, become at times temporarily ‘important’ or ‘great.’

“They do not even begin to suspect that this proceeds not because of any particular qualities in the beings themselves of the given communities, but depends exclusively only from what part of the surface of their planet, in correlation with the harmonious movement of the whole of their solar system, there is required at the given period for the purposes of the most great Omni-Universal-Trogoautoegocratic process more of those vibrations arising either from their radiations or from the process of the sacred Rascooarno proceeding with them.

“And in regard to the third language which these assembled representatives also proposed making the common planetary language, namely, that language which they call Esperanto – over it there did not indeed then arise among them even their usual squabbles which they characterize with the words ‘foaming-at-the-mouth’ – they themselves, with all the bobtailedness of their reason, immediately reflected that this language could not now in any way be useful for their purpose.