ADMINISTRATIVE KEPORT XXXVII 



Subsequently he returned to tlie service of the Bin-ean, 

 and began preparing for publication the records of his 

 researches in Zuhi; a part of this material was ])ublished 

 in the Thirteenth Report under the title "Outlines of 

 Zuui Creation Myths." His health failing to an extent 

 requiring a change, he was assigned to duty in Florida, 

 where he made an areheologic survey no less remarkable 

 for the breadth of view with whi(di it was conducted than 

 for the wealth of material produced from shell mounds 

 and peat -lined lagoons. He was actively engaged in pre- 

 paring the results of this work for publication when a 

 slight a;ccident (the swallowing of a fish bone) proved too 

 much for the vital thread, never strong and much enfee- 

 bled by whole-hearted and absorbing devotion to duty 

 under trying conditions in Ziuli and in Florida. So his 

 professional career ended. He died April 10, 1900. 



Gushing was a man of genius. The history of the 

 human world has been shaped by a few men; the multi- 

 tudes have lived and worked and ended their days under 

 the leadership of these few. Most of the geniuses who 

 have shaped the history of later times shone as intellectual 

 luminaries alone. Gushing stood out not only as a man of 

 intellect, but preeminently as a master of those manual 

 concepts to which he gave name as well as meaning — 

 indeed, he might fittingly be styled a manual genius. 

 There are two sides to man, two correlative and reciprocal 

 aspects — the hand side and the brain side. Human 

 development begins in the child, and began in our earliest 

 ancestry so far as we are able to think, chiefly in the per- 

 fecting of the hand; for throughout the human world 

 men do before they know — indeed, the greater part of 

 knowing is always preceded by generations of doing. So 

 humanity's dawn was doubtless brightened through 

 manual genius; then came those later millenniums in 

 which the brain side of man rose into dominance and 

 illumined progress — and this was the time of intellectual 

 geniuses. Of late science has arisen, and men have 

 turned to the contemplation of nature and have been led 

 thence to the conquest of natural forces. In the strife 



