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I may say. Imwivt r. thai lUissia. Austria, ( iciiiiaiiy. 

 I'raiuv, Enj^laud. and t lie United States have eacli orgaii- 

 izcil special bureaus lor tlir iniuutc cxaiiiinatioii of the 

 ))eoples within tlieir limits. 



\'. — J^si/rliiilof/i/. 



What has anthmpology to do with metaphysics? Just 

 two things. The science of metaphysics itself has had a his- 

 tory. Mm did not always hxdc upon the intellectual facul- 

 ties as they do now. The evolution of psychological studies 

 is certainly as interesting as the life history of any living 

 thinir. l>ut. auain, mind is horn and <j;rows : there are race 

 psychologies as well as race anatomies: and the whole 

 Inuiian intellect has had its progress by stages. Every 

 mother before nu-, had she leisure from her burdeneil life, 

 could write a mo.st wonderful chapter in anthro[>ol(>gy, by 

 recording minutely, day by day, how a little child eniei-ged 

 from the chaos of ignorance and })rogrcssed in the unfold- 

 ing of its mind by the acquisition of knowledge. I shall 

 have spoken in vain if I have not clearly shown that the 

 average history of the individual is the history of the Kdce, 

 and that tliis great giant of humanity took on ideas just as 

 does the little child. 



Again, i>rutes have minds. Anthropology is making the 

 most exhaustive investigations into the (juestion whether 

 they differ from us in (piality of mind or only in degree; 

 whether the instincts of the brute are the i)arents of human 

 thoughts. In this ])ortion of the subject is involved the 

 vexed inquiry whether the brain generates thought as the 

 liver does l)ile ; or whether there is a spirit in man which 

 constitutes his true individuality, for which hi< bodv i< oidy 

 a temporary abiding place. 



\' I . — (tli)ssolo(j!/. 



Thf dejtartment of anthropology which investigates lan- 

 guage is variously termed, linguistics, philology, glossology, 

 and the science of laniruag* . It has for its object to inquire 

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