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GREEK AS INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE. 229 plan was never realized. As far as his idea was correct, it has been carried out by the signs of the mathematical and chemical sciences. A world-language, so far, exists only in the tele- graphic marine code. As the attempts of Leibnitz failed in the seventeenth century, so also did those of the eighteenth century. During the nineteenth century the means of communication increased in gigantic proportion, international commerce became of far more im- portance than ever before, and the attempts at creating a world language were resumed. The best known of these is the Volaplik of the Rev. Mr. Schleyer, and the partial success obtained for some time by this artificial language proves the existence of a great desire for an interna- tional means of communication. Whatever may have been the object of Vola- plik, it could never have been the intention of the inventor, nor could it have been expected of him, to make it an international language for scientific purposes. It was an idea of King Maximilian of Bavaria to transmit to history a reminder of his reign. He instructed the architects of Germany to design a new style to be named after him.