On Phoenician Letters

Christian commonwealth. First, that with only one language as a guide and forerunner, commerce can be had with all of Asia, Africa, and at least a third part of Europe, which is occupied by the Arabic language itself in its grammar. Second, that with that language known, and the books that are in it translated—which is the intention of the Council and of the entire Christendom, awaiting for three hundred years already for someone to execute it—spiritual, rational, holy, and just arms may be taken up against such a world of Ishmaelites or Semi-Jews (for thus, in letters, religion, rites, and morals, the Ishmaelites strive to be entirely, even rashly and thoughtlessly). In this way, after they have been convicted by the doctrine and reason of their own leaders, they may be exterminated if they do not obey reason. But indeed, who would doubt, when these things came into the mind of Carolus Charles Cardinal of Lotharingius Lorraine, that he would obtain with the same ease from the Most Christian King that Arabic, the second daughter of the holy language, should also have its own readers