15 April :
15 Apr 1896 - Left NY for his second visit to England and ended his second visit to America.
About Bengali language - To Udbodhan - The language in which we
naturally express ourselves, in which we communicate our anger, grief,
or love, etc.— there cannot be a fitter language than that. We must
stick to that idea, that manner of expression, that diction and all. No
artificial language can ever have that
force, and that brevity and expressiveness, or admit of being given any
turn you please, as that spoken language. Language must be made like
pure steel — turn and twist it any way you like, it is again the same —
it cleaves a rock in twain at one stroke, without its edge being turned.
Our language is becoming artificial by imitating the slow and pompous
movement — and only that — of Sanskrit. And language is the chief means
and index of a nation's progress....Language is the vehicle of ideas. It
is the ideas that are of prime importance, language comes after. Does
it look well to place a monkey on a horse that has trappings of diamonds
and pearls?
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