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Nobody will question that it was the medium of print that then
gave the vernaculars new functions, and utterly changed the
uses and relevance of Latin. By the eighteenth century, on the
other hand, the relations between language, religion, and
politics had clarified. Language had become religion, in France
at least.
If the original Jacobins were sluggish in translating
all their theories of education into action, they were
prompt to recognize the significance of language as the
basis of nationality and to try to compel all inhabitants of
France to use the French language. They contended that
successful rule by “the people” and united action by the
nation were dependent, not only on a certain uniformity
of habits and customs, but even more on an identity of
ideas and ideals which could be effected by speeches, the