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lurology ; but, after all, tellurology relates but to the earth, 

 a small planet of a small solar system ; after all, man is 

 only as a drop in the ocean of infinity, of value, but of 

 relative value. To the tiger, man is a mass of flesh and 

 bone, partly food and partly indigestible matter ; to man 

 himself, he is the first and most important compound of 

 physical, intellectual and moral attributes, a sentient, know- 

 ing and acting being. Anthropology concerns itself with 

 everything that pertains to man, his origin, his structure and 

 functions, his relations and capabilities, his conditions in 

 health and disease, his needs and desires, his religion and 

 morals. In addition to the aspectual divisions already named, 

 giving us general and special anthropology ; comparative and 

 descriptive anthropology ; anthropogeny (embracing history 

 of the past) and anthropography (embracing statistics of the 

 present) ; authropohylology, anthropodynamology and an- 

 thropomorphology ; — there is another aspect from which the 

 science of *man may be studied, viz., that of man's being 

 either alone, separate, individual or not alone, but combined, 

 i.e., in society; and hence arises the further aspectual sub- 

 division of anthropology into monanthropology, a name for 

 which science is indebted to Stephen Pearl Andrews, and 

 synanthropology, a name which I propose instead of that of 

 sociology, introduced by Auguste Comte. To specify the 

 many other sciences included under the head of anthro- 

 jjology, I deem unnecessary. 



