it seemed to me , as i looked at the performance , that if all the races of men , who had been stricken asunder at the foot of the tower of babel by the miracle which made the tongues of each to speak a language unknown to the others , could be brought together again at the foot of the same tower , with all the advantages which thousands of years of education had in the meantime imparted to them , they would be able , without any miracle , to make themselves mutually understood .