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line if our analysis is to be final. The day is past when the arithmetic 

 of the kindergarten sufficed for the physical anthropologist; the day 

 is coming when mere verbal discussion will prove inadequate for the 

 cultural anthropologist. 



I do not say this merely in the controversial spirit. I say it be- 

 cause I want to find a remedy for the present state of affairs. I want 

 to see the full recognition of anthropology as a leading science by 

 the State. I want to see the recognition of anthropology by our 

 manufacturers and commercial men, for it should be at least as im- 

 portant to them as chemistry or physics — the foundation of an- 

 thropological institutes with their museums and professors in Ham- 

 burg and Frankfurt have not yet found their parallels in commer- 

 cial centers here. I want to see a fuller recognition of anthropology 

 in our great scientific societies, both in their choice of members 

 and in the memoirs published. If their doors are being opened to 

 psychology under its new technique, may not anthropology also seek 

 for fuller recognition ? 



It appears to me that if we are to place anthropology in its true 

 position as the Queen of the sciences, we must work shoulder to 

 shoulder and work without intermittence in the following directions : 

 Anthropologists must not cease — 



(1) To insist that our recorded material shall be such that it is 

 at present or is likely in the near future to be utile to the State, using 

 the word " State " in its amplest sense. 



(2) To insist that there shall be institutes of anthropology, each 

 with a full staff of qualified professors, whose whole energy and time 

 shall be devoted to the teaching of and research in anthropology, 

 ethnology, and prehistory. At least three of our chief universities 

 should be provided with such institutes. 



(3) To insist that our technique shall not consist in the mere state- 

 ment of opinion on the facts observed, but shall follow, if possible, 

 with greater insight, the methods which are coming into use in 

 epidemiology and psychology. 



I should like to enlarge a little further on these three insistencies, 

 the fundamental " planks " of the campaign I have in view. 



1. INSISTENCE ON THE NATURE OF THE MATERIAL TO BE DEALT 



WITH. 



I have already tried to indicate that the problems before us to-day, 

 the grave problems that are pressing on us with regard to the future, 

 can not be solved by the old material and by the old methods. We 

 have to make anthropology a wise counsellor of the State, and this 

 means a counsellor in political matters, in commercial matters, and 

 m social matters. 



