●   ●   ●    by one Alice Tournier, she explained to the translator her conviction that the English tongue “will ere long become the universal language,” 119 and the same explanation was given to the prominent Germans 120 who pressed for a German translation. Only toward the end of her life, when she conceived the idea of having the English and foreign-language texts printed on opposite pages, did she authorize a committee to prepare a translation of Science and Health into German.