In the eleventh chapter of Genesis we read that at one time the people of the earth had one language and one speech. The Bible narrative records this fact and goes on to say, "And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there." What followed this journey into the land of Shinar is well known to Bible readers. The city and tower of Babel were built, and a confusion of tongues ensued.
Scholarly research has discovered the fact that language actually had a common origin in the East and that it later developed into a multiplicity of tongues. Professor Max Muller, in a lecture entitled "On Freedom," delivered in Birmingham, England, in 1879, stated, "That all of us, whether we speak English or German, or French or Russian, are really speaking an ancient Oriental tongue, incredible as it would have sounded a hundred years ago, is now recognized by everybody."
Christian Science reveals the spiritual fact that there is one Mind, and therefore one way of expressing thought, or in other words, one language. This language is not confined to the East or the West, or to one race to the exclusion of another. It has its origin in God and must be understood through the acknowledgment of the one Mind as causative.
