Excerpt from Chips From a German Workshop, Vol. 1 What was I to do but to obey? Had I fol lowed my own inclination only, I should certainly have preferred to see some of the essays written by me when I was a very young man, consigned to oblivion. But there they are, and whether I allowed them to be published once more or not, I knew I should have been held responsible just the same for what I had written in any one of them. I am still taken to task for my 'letter on the Turanian Languages, ' which I addressed to Bunsen in the year 18 53, and which was published by him in his Christianity and Mankind in 1854, though I never allowed it to be reprinted, and though I have taken every opportunity to declare that I have ceased to hold several of the opinions put forward in that letter, and that by Turanian I never meant a family of speech, in the same sense in which we speak of an Aryan and a Semitic family, but only a class of Ian guages, held together by little more than the negative characteristic of being neither Aryan nor Semitic. Turanian seemed to me a better name than Allophylian. 'it has been used by many scholars in that sense, and in that sense I still continue to use it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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