I do not think that the time has come for publishing in the German way a complete or uniformly treated book; I think it is much more important to fortify our view of language from within, and launch it forth armed with stings upon these inert and confused times. _Therefore_ method, and satisfactory discussion of that on which everything depends; with a general setting forth of _the_ points which it concerns us now to investigate. I could most easily make you perceive what I mean, by an abstract of the prospectus, which I have written off, in order to discuss it thoroughly with you as soon as you can come here. As you would have to undertake three fourths of the whole, you have only to consider all this as a proposal open to correction, or rather a handle for discussion. FIRST VOLUME. (Bunsen.) _General Division._ _Introduction._ The Science of Language and its Epochs (according to Outlines, 35-60). 1. The Phenomena of Language (according to Outlines, ii. 1-72). 2. The Metaphysics of Language (according to Outlines, ii. 73-122)—manuscript attempt to carry out Kant’s Categories, not according to Hegel’s method. 3. The Historical Development (Outlines, ii. 123-140; and Outlines of Metaphysics, second volume, in MS.). Müller _ad libitum._ (With this an ethnographical atlas, colored according to the colors of the three families.) SECOND VOLUME. (Müller:) _First Division._ The _sentence-languages_ of Eastern Asia (Chinese). _Second Division._ The _Turanian_ word-languages in Asia and Europe. THIRD VOLUME. (Müller and Bunsen.) _First Division._ The _Hamitic-Semitic_ languages in Asia and Africa. (Bunsen.) _Second Division._ The _Iranian_ languages in Asia and Europe. FOURTH VOLUME. (Müller.) The branching off of the Turanians and Hamites in Africa, America, and Polynesia. _a._ The colony of East Asiatic Turanians in South Africa (great Kaffir branch). _b._ The colony of North Asiatic Turanians (Mongolians) in North America. _c._ The Turanian colonies in South America. _d._ The older colonies of the East Asiatic Turanians in Polynesia (Papuas). _e._ The newer ditto (light-colored Malay branch). Petermann or Kiepert would make the ethnographical atlas _beautifully_. I have in the last few months discovered that the three Noachic families were originally named according to the three colors. 1. Ham is clear; it means _black_. 2. Shem is an honorary name (the glorious, the famous), but the old name is Adam, that is, Edom, which means _red_, reddish == φοίνιξ: this has given me great light. The Canaanites were formerly called Edomi, and migrated about 2850, after the volcanic disturbance at the Dead Sea (Stagnum Assyrium, Justin, xviii. 3), towards the coast of Phœnicia, where Sidon is the most ancient settlement, the first begotten of Canaan; and the era of Tyre begins as early as 2760 (Herodotus, ii. 44).