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great influence over other men, and which has made his 

 work so authoritative and enduring, and that was his un- 

 swerving love of truth. In science, he was always the 

 judge — never the advocate. Pure and lofty-minded, he 

 stood aloof from intrigues, and honors came to him unsought. 

 The laureate's words may well be said of liiiii, — 



" Who never sold the truth to serve the liour. " 



In conclusion, allow me to remind you that there is what 

 may be termed a moral side of the science whose history 

 we have been considering. To sj^end our hours in the 

 stud}'' of man — to reflect upon his marvelous metamorphosis 

 from the grimy savage of the cave to the gentleman of to- 

 daj'' — to ponder upon his curious devices, his laws, his 

 marriage-customs, his battles, his religions, is to All our 

 minds with a belief in a common brotherhood more con- 

 vincingly than peace societies or missionaries can teach, 

 and to lead us to repeat with Terence : — " I am a man — 

 therefore all human things concern me." 



*^* I desire to acknowledge my obligation to Prof. Pozzi's article in the 

 Revue d'anthropologie for much of the details of the founding of the Institute. 



