A HISTORY OF SCIENCE 



cestry are not as fully revealed by present paleontology 

 as is to be desired. 



The New Science of Anthropology 



All these, however, are details that hardly take rank 

 with the general problems that we are noticing. There 

 are other questions, however, concerning the history 

 and present evolution of man himself that are of wider 

 scope, or at least seemingly greater importance from 

 a human stand-point, which within recent decades have 

 come for the first time within the scope of truly induc- 

 tive science. These are the problems of anthropology 

 a science of such wide scope, such far-reaching col- 

 lateral implications, that as yet its specific field and 

 functions are not as clearly defined or as generally rec- 

 ognized as they are probably destined to be in the near 

 future. The province of this new science is to correlate 

 the discoveries of a wide range of collateral sciences- 

 paleontology, biology, medicine, and so on from the 

 point of view of human history and human welfare. 

 To this end all observable races of men are studied as 

 to their physical characteristics, their mental and moral 

 traits, their manners, customs, languages, and relig- 

 ions. A mass of data is already at hand, and in proc- 

 ess of sorting and correlating. Out of this effort will 

 probably come all manner of useful generalizations, 

 perhaps in time bringing sociology, or the study of 

 human social relations, to the rank of a veritable 

 science. But great as is the promise of anthropology, 

 it can hardly be denied that the broader questions 

 with which it has to deal questions of race, of gov- 

 ernment, of social evolution are still this side the fixed 



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