Here lay the universal truths about how the human mind worked and what man was.

ECONOMIST: Claude L��vi-Strauss

By the nineteenth century, the dream of constructing a philosophical language capable of expressing universal truths had given way to the equally ambitious desire to unite the world through a single, easy-to-learn, politically neutral, auxiliary language.

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He shaped and formed many of the universal principles of ethics, morals, and truths into language and practices people live and do business by all over the world.

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