ESPERANTO

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2806, 27 November 1931, Page 2 (Supplement)

ESPERANTO

LANGUAGE INVENTOR HONOURED. As Carlyle has pointed out, nobility of character and loftiness of leadership ever impel the homage of the common man when once he is brought to acknowledge these qualities in another. Lazarus Zamenhof is coming into his own. The natural desire to honour the Polish benefactor, which for years has burned suppressed in the hearts of thousands, is slowly taking concrete form. Within the past twelve months a plaque has been affixed to his birthplace in Bialystok, the foundation for a 36-foot monument has been laid in the same town, a marble tablet to his memory has just been unveiled in the street Zamenhof in Warsaw, and a stone inscribed “ Dr L. L. Zamenhof, dem Schopfer des Esperanto” (the Creator of Esperanto), has been dedicated in Bad Reinerz Silesia. What would have rejoiced his heart much more than the recording to posterity of his name is the ever-increasing use of his language among the world’s peoples. Inscriptions on stone will nu’ngle their* dust with that of Nineveh and Tyre, but the work of Zamenhof will, in the opinion of his admirers, weave for itself an imperishable pattern in the fabric of our common culture.