ANTHROPOLOGY. 



By Otis T. Mason. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The rant and importance of any science are to 1^« "''^^•"■'^Vlnntoi' 

 by the intrinsic value of its subject matter, but l^y «- -»-";^°; , 

 lectual acnvily «hich it demauds aud has evoked, and the <!0"f'™ « ' 

 vh "h its pursuit has made to human progress and happiness In cla m^ 

 ng orantl.opo.««ythehrstrau,.auu.ng tl.esciences,,t .s 0^^^^^^ 

 to say that it stands pre-eminent iu the grandeur aud comp exit j ot it* 

 theme Although calling for u,iuds of the highest order, it is heset w. h 

 Zny dimcnhies, that men of the ^^-^ ^"^^ ^^:::Z^ 

 attracted to it, and the beneUcence of its results arc >^^^'^'^'^^;^ 

 either iu the a igmentation ot happiness or the meroase of soh.l ham 

 taf hat even inferior minds have been driven to labor in other tields 



is knowledge becomes more complex its devotees are obliged to h 

 more t^lely informed, although their cultivation of each subject need 

 not be so ilfouud. The abstn«;t mathematician flnds his most arduous 

 Hbors tn he solutions of those problems which have no objective reality. 

 The as rouomer, dividing his time between o^^'^^^^"- ^"^^^^^ 

 eliminates the profounderquestious of themathemat.c^n Thephjsic s 

 and the chemist must acquaiut themselves with other forces than inei 



«: and gtvitation, and in the study of -^-''-'^r^^-f^.'^rr; 

 nelled to neglect the processes of the astronomer aud to accept his lesults. 

 ^h r tro :lu of 'knowledge, also, is vividly ^^^-'-^^^ 

 which the chemist is able to render to the astronomer in ^^I'^t^^T- 

 of the spectroscope. To the investigations of the student of mattcu the 

 bo ani adds the vital phenomena, and the zoologist the ^^^^ 

 uutarv motion. The anthropologist is bound to acquaint himself with 

 "ai?:; thre smce man is amenable to all the laws f'^^:J^^^Z 

 over, has overtaken their activities into consideration. H>^ J^" f/^°' 

 relic are buried in the <lel,Hs of those geologica "f^ "'"^J;;^^ 

 with the greatest difaculties; his body is >"o'-«;'>''^t,"'*''"" 't'^' "J^^^^^^^^ 

 other animal, aud the forces of nature actnpon him -^^^"^^^^ 

 of results. Finally he thinks, he subdues nature ^bere is caice^J a 

 miueral a plant, or an animal that might not, with a little s ram, nnu 

 Tway'into an Anthropological museum, as helptW or hurtful to man. 



