esperanto_story1-3, Exercise 2: The Declaration of Boulogne in four points

Model answer (summary only; read the original wording, check the details):

1. Esperantism aims to spread a neutral human language in everyday use. Promises: a practical purpose. Avoids: claiming that it should replace national languages.
2. The language is not the property of any person or nation. Promises: open use by anyone. Avoids: personal or national control.
3. The Fundamento is the unchangeable basis. Promises: stability, so that a learner today and tomorrow reads the same language. Avoids: constant reform by the founder or by a majority vote (the Volapük problem).
4. An Esperantist is anyone who uses the language, whatever their purpose, and the movement as such has no political or religious programme. Promises: room for people of different views. Avoids: tying the language to a cause such as peace, pacifism or a religion; the "inner idea" (Chapter 4) remains a personal view.

Care: whether the practice always matched the promise is a question for later chapters.