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lower types means for us weakness, illness, death. This is 

 the "inwardness " of Tennyson's verse when he wrote, — 



Arise and fly 

 The reeling fann, the sensual feast; 

 Move upward, working out the beast. 

 And let the ape and tiger die. 



In conclusion, I may say that this disquisition on the 

 influence of the mind over the body may be thought to be out 

 of place in an address mostly on anthropology. I do not con- 

 sider it to be so. If by the study of man we only mean the 

 annotation and indexing into records of what men have 

 done and are doing in the world, such a study does not 

 reach the border of that high land on which true science 

 dwells. For scientia means knowledge, and the highest 

 knowledge must be the knowledge of our true selves, of 

 the inner man, not of the action and interaction of barbarism 

 and culture on the human race. The observation that 

 teaches us properly to " know," and by its help to set our- 

 selves on a higher plane of thought, is observation well 

 bestowed and time well spent. 



Art. LXIV. — Congenital Stigmata. 



By Edward Tregear. 



[Bead before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 20th April, 1898.] 



Plate LVIII. 



The subject of congenital stigmata as a race distinction 

 has been lately brought before scientists in France by Dr. 

 J. J. Matignon, and confirmed by the observations of other 

 medical men who have practised among the Mongols and 

 other allied peoples. It may be of interest to start inquiry 

 among anthropologists resident in the Pacific Islands, be- 

 cause assertions are sometimes made that an invasion of men 

 of Mongolian blood has been made at certain times and into 

 widely separated localities of Oceania. If it is found that any 

 of these ethnical birth-marks can be traced among the natives 

 of islands supposed to have been occupied by races of Chinese 

 or Japanese affinity, it might assist us to trace the evidence 

 of such racial occupation. 



Chinese children have frequently been noticed as having 

 dark marks, more or less deep in colour, upon the lumbar 

 region. Chinese doctors afiirm that these marks are almost 



