CLARK WISSLER, OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM, AUTHOR OF 



"THE AMERICAN INDIAN" 



The following is quoted from a review of the book which appeared in the Am/rican Anthropologist (N. S. 

 20, 1918), by Professor A. L. Kroeber, of the University of California: 



"Dr. Wissler has looked almost wliolly for mass results: and he has got them in a degree that makes 

 all previous efforts in the same direction seem feebly puny. In the power of practical organization 

 displayed, the book is characteristically American. 



The author evinces remarkable balance of judgment. . . . He looks into everything and 



faces any aspect impartially ; if his conclusion comes out tentative, he is willing to have it so. 



He steers a mean course, equally clear from the Scylla of mere depiction and the Charyb- 



dis of theory spinning. The evolutionist, migrationist, and other snares that so regularly 



enmesh those with a weakness for deduction, never touch him. It is a pleasure to feel 



his apparently instinctive aversion to anything but inductive reference. . . . He 



has moved forward the science of anthropology. The book traverses a long 



route ; and there is scarcely a point touched but something is established which 



before was vague or obscure or postponed or unorganized" 



— See "Review of Wissler's The American Indian," page 646. 



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