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The Zuni and the Arapaho Indians have a language with 

 a complex grammar and copious vocabulary well adapted to 

 the expression of the thoughts incident to their customs and 

 status of culture, and they have no more difficulty in convoy- 

 ing their thoughts with their language by night than Eng- 

 lishmen have in conversing without gaslight. An example 

 from each of three eminent authors has been taken to illus- 

 trate the worthlessness of a vast body of anthropologic 

 material to which even the best writers resort. 



Anthropology needs trained devotees with philosophic 

 methods and keen observation to study every tribe and na- 

 tion of the globe almost de novo ; and from materials thus 

 collected a science may be established. 



