394 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1915. 



A knowledge of the facts of nature is not yet deemed an essential 

 part of the mental equipment of politicians; but as the priest who 

 began in other ages as medicine man has been obliged to abandon 

 the medical parts of his practice, so will the future behold the school- 

 master, the magistrate, the lawyer, and ultimately the statesman, 

 compelled to share with the naturalist those functions which are 

 concerned with the physiology of race. 



