450 ANTHROPOLOGY 



Yet, viewed in the light of the relations among the sciences, it 

 is no mere chance that the science of man rises from the hip and 

 shoulder and head of the elder-sister sciences, as the family infant 

 is borne by primitive folk; for the sciences have come up, just as 

 the cosmos seems to have developed, in an order of increasing com- 

 plexity. The stellar bodies are interrelated through gravity and 

 various forms of molar force which may be combined under the 

 term molarity; and astronomy in its earlier form was the science 

 of these relations. As the planets took shape (whether through 

 nebular integration or through planetesimal aggregation), chem- 

 ical reactions became paramount over mechanical relations, and 

 affinity was superadded to molarity; and in a parallel order chem- 

 istry was added to astronomy in the growth of knowledge. When 

 our planet was incrusted, and the great deeps were divided into 

 sea and land, life appeared, and thereby vitality was superadded 

 to affinity; and concordantly, as knowledge grew, the biotic 

 sciences followed the more exactly quantitative earlier branches. 

 In cosmic time animal activity followed hard on more inert vegetal 

 life, and motility was superadded to vitality; and in human time 

 animals were domesticated soon after plants were cultivated, while 

 zoology grew up nearly apace with phytology. As the earth aged 

 into continental and seasonal steadiness, and the struggle for or- 

 ganic existence grew strenuous, more and more of the battles were 

 lost to the strong and the races to the swift, and were won by the 

 intelligent, and thereby mentality was superadded to vitality as a 

 factor in earth-history, and man came to his own as a mind-led 

 monarch over lower life and a progressive conqueror of the na- 

 tural forces; and in like manner, as human history matures, it 

 records anthropology as the younger-kin of zoology. In a word, 

 man, as the head and intellectual ruler over the realm of life, alone 

 stands for all the fundamental forces of molarity plus affinity plus 

 vitality plus motility plus mentality, and is interrelated alike 

 with sun and planet, agent and reagent, plant and seed, egg and 

 animal, and with groups of his own kind; and, in a word, the sci- 

 ence of man is, more than any other branch of knowledge, inter- 

 dependent with all the sister sciences, and more many-sided than 

 any of the rest. 



The Setting of the Science 



The scriptless nomads of the human prime (and of many lands) 

 set their journeys by the stars and enshrined their beastly deities 

 in the visible firmament, and thus astrology set out on a course 

 still traceable through constellations and planet-myths; at the same 

 time those mnemonic devices of the sky were mated with equally 

 imaginative symbols of every-day things, and as these grew into 



