ia Minor has been brought within the province of Indo-European and this modifies the theory. The gradual reconstruction of proto-Chinese, common Malay-Polynesian, and of certain Amerindian prototypes will perhaps permit new ic groupings, etc. But even if a much more detailed enumeration of research could be given, it would show that the work is proceeding very unevenly; here studies are continued which would have been the same in 1910, there even the term "linguistics" is rejected as being out of date, and elsewhere whole books are devoted just to the idea of the "phoneme." This multiplication of effort does not immediately reveal, but rather conceals, the profound changes which the
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