5010. S1: The mother tongue is the true vehicle of mother wit. P: Another medium of speech may bring with it a current of new ideas. Q: It is through the vernacular (refined, though not weakened,by scholarship and taste) that the new conceptions of the mind should press their way to birth in speech. R: But the mother tongue is one with the air in which a man is born. S: This is almost universally true, except in cases so rare (like that of Joseph Conrad) as to emphasise the general rule. S6: A man’s native speech is almost like his shadow, inseparable from his personality. The Proper sequence should be: