THE 



POPULAR SCIENCE 

 MONTHLY. 



OCTOBER, 1890. 



NEW CHAPTERS IN THE WARFARE OF SCIENCE, 



X. THE FALL OF MAN" AND ANTHROPOLOGY. 



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By ANDREW DICKSON WHITE, LL. D., L.H. D., 



EX-PRESIDENT OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY. 



PART II. 



WE have seen that, closely connected with the main lines of 

 investigation in Archaeology and Anthropology, there were 

 other researches throwing much light on the entire subject. In a 

 previous chapter we saw especially how Lafitau and Jussieu were 

 among the first to collect and compare facts bearing on the natural 

 history of man, gathered by travelers in various parts of the earth, 

 thus laying foundations for the science of Comparative Ethnology. 

 It was soon seen that Ethnology had most important bearings upon 

 the question of the material, intellectual, moral, and religious evo- 

 lution of the human race ; in every civilized nation, therefore, ap- 

 peared eminent men who began to study the characteristics of va- 

 rious groups of men as ascertained from travelers, and to compare 

 the results thus gained with each other and with those obtained 

 by Archaeology. 



Thus, more and more clear became the evidences that the tend- 

 ency of the race has been upward from low beginnings. It was 

 found that groups of men still existed possessing characteristics of 

 those in the early periods of development to whom the drift and 

 caves and shell-heaps and pile-dwellings bear witness ; groups of 

 men using many of the same implements and weapons, building 

 their houses in the same way, seeking their food by the same 

 means, enjoying the same amusements, going through the same 

 general stages of culture ; some being in a condition correspond- 

 ing to the earlier, some to the later periods. 



From all sides thus came evidence that we have still upon 



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