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anthropometer has forgotten that it is as much his duty to measure 

 the human mind as it is his duty to measure the human body, and that 

 it is as much his duty to measure the functional activities of the 

 human body — its dynamical characters — as its statical characters. 

 By dynamical characters I understand such qualities as resistance to 

 fatigue, facility in physical and mental tasks, immunity to disease, 

 excitability under stimuli, and many kindred properties. If you tell 

 me that we are here trenching on the field of psychology and medicine, 

 I reply : Certainly ; you do not suppose that any form of investiga- 

 tion which deals with man — body or mind — is to be omitted from the 

 science of man? If you do you have failed to grasp why anthro- 

 pology is the queen of the sciences. The university anthropological 

 institute of the future will have attached to it a psychologist, a medi- 

 cal officer, and a biologist. They are essential portions of its requi- 

 site staff, but this is a very different matter from lopping off large 

 and important branches of its fitting studies, to lie neglected on the 

 ground, or to be dragged away, as dead wood, to be hewn and shapen 

 for other purposes by scientific colleagues in other institutes. Re- 

 member that I am emphasizing that side of anthropology which 

 studies man in the service of the State — anthropology as a utile sci- 

 ence — and that this is the only ground on which anthropology can 

 appeal for support and sympathy from State, from municipality, and 

 from private donors. You will notice that I lay stress on the associ- 

 ation of the anthropological institute with the university, and the 

 reasons for this are manifold. In the first place, every science is 

 stimulated by contact with the workers in allied sciences; in the 

 second place, the institute must be a teaching as well as a researching 

 body, and it can only do this effectively in association with an aca- 

 demic center — a center from which to draw its students and recruit its 

 staff. In the third place, a great university provides a wide field for 

 anthropometric studies in its students and its staff. And the advan- 

 tages are mutual. It is not of much service to hand a student a card 

 containing his stature, his weight, his eye-color, and his head-length. 

 Most of these he can find out for himself. But it is of importance to 

 him to know something of how his eye, heart, and respiration func- 

 tion ; it is of importance to him to know the general character of his 

 mental qualities, and how they are associated with the rapidity and 

 steadiness of muscular responses. Knowledge on these points may 

 lead him to a fit choice of a career, or at any rate save him from a 

 thoroughly bad choice. 



In the course of my life I have often received inquiries from school- 

 masters of the following kind : We are setting up a school anthropo- 

 metric laboratory, and we propose to measure stature, weight, height- 

 sitting, &c. Can you suggest anything else we should measure ? 



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