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SOMATOLOGY 



together with these two series of sciences, each being placed in 

 juxtaposition with those sciences which have specially contributed 

 to their progress. This tabulation I published fifteen years ago, 1 

 but circumstances have not yet permitted me to develop the th'eme 

 as fully as I had intended. It were superfluous, at this juncture, 

 to point out, in justification of the existence of anthropology, its 

 position among the other sciences, or the incapability of any other 

 science to replace it. 



KNOWLEDGE 



ACTION 



of phenomena: 

 General Sciences 



of objects: 

 Special Sciences 



Arts 



Mathematics 

 Physics 



Chemistry 



Biology 



Sociology 



Astronomy 

 Meteorology 



Mineralogy 



Geography and 



Geology 



Botany 



Zodlogy and 

 subdivisions 



Exact arts of engin- 

 eers, builders; 



Railroad con- 

 struction ; 



Navigation, etc. 



Manufactures, 

 metallurgy, etc. 



Agriculture. 



Zootechnics 



Anthropotechnics (ology ) 



Medicine ) 



f Human 

 Hygiene > 



Morals 

 Education 

 Law 

 Politics 



According to the order 

 of decreasing generality 

 and increasing complexity. 

 A. COMTE. 



Just as sociology, at the head of the series of the general sciences, 

 has assumed the study of the social phenomena, so anthropology, 

 at the head of the special sciences, has all the more logically as- 

 sumed the study of human beings. The importance of this fact is 

 sufficiently indicated by the simple enumeration of the arts that 

 are of especial benefit to mankind. Among these arts I only cite 

 those which have for their chief aim the guidance and instruction 

 of men, and which I have grouped under the name of anthropotech- 

 nology, in order to show their analogy with those included under 

 the name of zootechnology from the viewpoint of their relations with 

 science. 



1 Classification naturelle des sciences; Position, programme et divisions de 

 1'Anthropologie, Association francaise pour Pavancement des sciences, Congres 

 de Paris, 1889. 



