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that their responses would not be used for such a purpose. The 

 identities and details of their letters must therefore be retained, 

 for the present at any rate, in the archives of the Institution. 

 But since many of them have offered to relieve the solicitor of 

 this obhgation, and probably all of them would do so on request, 

 it is believed that no confidence will be violated in stating the two 

 following statistical facts, w^hich not only agree with one another 

 but strong!}^ confirm also the inductions referred to above, drawn 

 from the more miscellaneous correspondence of the Institution: 



1. The definitions of the term humanities vary from the exclu- 

 siveness of literature alone to the inclusiveness of the more recent 

 definitions of anthropology, with a noteworthy tendency toward 

 inclusiveness rather than the reverse. 



2. To the concrete question What works, if any, already pub- 

 lished by the Institution fall in the humanities, the answers vary 

 from 2 to 33, the number of publications up to 1910 being 146. 



The correspondent who assigned the largest number of publi- 

 cations to the humanities took the trouble also to count up the 

 totals of the numbers of pages of all the works issued by the 

 Institution up to that time. His count gave: for the humanitie^s, 

 10,813 pages; for all other branches of knowledge, 21,700 pages. 



In connection with these statistical data, it is appropriate to 

 add the corresponding figures for the publications of the Institu- 

 tion brought down to date, namely, October 1917. In deriving 

 these there are included under the humanities works in archeol- 

 ogy, folk-lore, international law, history, literature, and philology. 

 Of a total of 88 volumes, 58 octavos contain 19,921 pages and 30 

 quartos contain 10,718 pages, the total number of pages being 

 30,639; but four of the volumes are still in press and their pagina- 

 tion is not included. 



Since the total number of pages of printed matter issued by the 

 Institution up to date is 98,565, it appears that the shares, if 

 such a term maj^ be used, allotted to the humanities and to all 

 other fields of learning combined are in round numbers one-third 

 and two-thirds respectivelj^ Whether this is one of fairness and 

 fitness will doubtless remain for a long time a disputed question, 

 since it seems to be one to w^hich the dictum of Marcus Aurelius 

 applies with peculiar emphasis. In the meantime, while waiting 

 for a diminution in the diversity of opinion which calls that 

 dictum to mind, it appears to be the duty of the Institution to pro- 



