SOME UNSOLVED SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS 



plane of assured generalization. No small part of its 

 interest and importance depends upon the fact that the 

 great problems that engage it are as yet unsolved 

 problems. In a word, anthropology is perhaps the 

 most important science in the entire hierarchy to-day, 

 precisely because it is an immature science. Its posi- 

 tion to-day is perhaps not unlike that of paleontology 

 at the close of the eighteenth century. May its 

 promise find as full fruition ! 



