# XII explained — The Coming Race

> Chapter companion for The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

## What happens

The narrator delves into the language of the Vril-ya, describing its evolution through isolating, agglutinative, and inflectional stages, and provides examples of word formation, grammar, and political terminology such as Koom-Posh and Glek-Nas.

## Themes in this chapter

### Critique of Democracy and American Politics

The narrator explains Koom-Posh as 'Hollow-Bosh' and Glek-Nas as 'universal strife-rot,' offering a satirical view of democratic governance.

## Character check-ins

### The Narrator

The narrator analyzes the Vril-ya language and its historical development.

## Key lines

> Koom-Posh is their name for the government of the many, or the ascendancy of the most ignorant or hollow.

Koom-Posh refers to rule by the many, where the ignorant or empty-headed hold power.

_The narrator defines a key political term of the Vril-ya._

> Glek-Nas may be construed, 'the universal strife-rot.'

Glek-Nas means widespread conflict and decay.

_The term describes a state of societal collapse due to popular passion or ferocity._

## Links

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