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artists, who exhibited such skill in animal-sketching, do not show to 

 much advantage. There is one study of a head, representing a gro- 

 tesque profile. Two other figures represent the forearm and hand, 

 four fingers being visible, and the thumb concealed. Add to these the 

 fishing-scene and two hunting-scenes, and you have the complete list 

 of figures relating to man in the Troglodytic Museum. 



As I have already said, sculptures are of rarer occurrence here than 

 engraved designs. Of the former we have not above half a dozen, all 

 found at Laugerie-Basse. One of these, the property of the Marquis 

 de Vibraye, represents a woman, and all the others represent animals, 

 viz., a reindeer, head of the same animal, head of a mammoth (re- 

 ferred to already), and also one of some unknown animal. Finally, we 

 have M. Massenat's latest discovery, known as the JSceufs Jumeaux 

 (twin-oxen), which represents a pair of oxen, or, perhaps, of aurochsen. 



These sculptures are sometimes incomplete, and always ill exe- 

 cuted; but in the art of design the artists display surprising abil- 

 ity. They sketched the human figure badly, but they studied care- 

 fully the form and the gait of animals, which they sometimes reproduced 

 with a degree of exactitude, elegance, and spirit, which evince the 

 true artistic sentiment. 



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THE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY. 



By HERBERT SPENCER. 



IX. The Bias of Patriotism. 



'/"XUR country, right or wrong," is a sentiment not unfrequently 

 Vy expressed on the other side of the Atlantic ; and, if I remem- 

 ber rightly, an equivalent sentiment was some years ago uttered in 

 our own House of Commons, by one who rejoices, or at least who once 

 rejoiced, in the title of philosophical radical. 



"Whoever entertains such a sentiment has not that equilibrium of 

 feeling required for dealing scientifically with social phenomena. To 

 see how things stand, apart from personal and national interests, is 

 essential before there can be reached those balanced judgments re- 

 specting the course of human affairs in general, which constitute So- 

 ciology. To be convinced of this, it needs but to take a case remote 

 from our own. Ask how the members of an aboriginal tribe regard 

 that tide of civilization which sweeps them away. Ask what the 

 North- American Indians said about the spread of the w T hite man over 

 their territories, or what the ancient Britons thought of the invasions 

 which dispossessed them of England ; and it becomes clear that events 

 which, looked at from an un-national point of view, were steps toward 



