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about a. phenomenon until we can actually measure it and express its 

 relations to other phenomena in quantitative form. Now you will 

 doubtless suggest that sections of folk-psychology like Language, 

 Religion, Law, Art — much that forms the substance of cultural 

 anthropology — are incapable of quantitative treatment. I am not con- 

 vinced ,that this standpoint is correct. Take only the first of these sec- 

 tions — Language. I am by no means certain that there is not a rich 

 harvest to be reaped by the first man who can give unbroken time and 

 study to the statistical analysis of language. Whether he start with 

 roots or with words to investigate the degree of resemblance in 

 languages of the same family, he is likely, before he has done, to 

 learn a great deal about the relative closeness and order of evolution 

 of cognate tongues, whether those tongues be Aryan or Sudanese. 

 And the methods applicable in the case of language will apply in the 

 same manner to cultural habits and ideas. Strange as the notion may 

 seem at first, there is a wide field in cultural anthropology for the use 

 of those same methods which have revolutionised psychometric tech- 

 nique, to say nothing of their influence on osteometry. 



The problems of cultural anthropology are subtle, but so indeed 

 are the problems of anthropometry, and no instrument can be too 

 fine if our analysis is to be final. The day is past when the arithmetic 

 of the kindergarten sufficed for the physical anthropologist; the day 

 is coming when mere verbal discussion will prove inadequate for the 

 cultural anthropologist. 



I do not say this merely in the controversial spirit. I say it because 

 I want to find a remedy for the present state of affairs. I want to 

 see the full recognition of anthropology as a leadmg science by the 

 State. I want to see the recognition of anthropology by our manu- 

 facturers and commercial men, for it should be at least as important 

 to them as chemistry or physics — the foundations of the Anthropo- 

 logical Institutes with their museums and professors in Hamburg 

 and Frankfurt have not yet found their parallels in commercial centres 

 here. I want to see a fuller recognition of anthropology in our great 

 scientific societies, both in their choice of members and in the memoirs 

 published. If their doors are being opened to psychology under its new 

 technique, may not anthropology also seek for fuller recognition? 



It appears to me that if we are to place anthropology in its true 

 position as the queen of the sciences, we must work shoulder to shoulder 

 and work without intermittence in the following directions : anthropolo- 

 gists must not cease : 



(i) To insist that our recorded material shall be such that it is 

 at present or likely in the near future to be utile to the State, using the 

 word ' State ' in its amplest sense. 



(ii) To insist that there shall be institutes of anthropology, each 

 with a full staff of qualified professors, whose whole energy and time 

 shall be devoted to the teaching of and research in anthropology, 

 ethnology and prehistory. At least three of our chief universities 

 should be provided with such institutes. 



(iii) To insist that our technique shall not consist in the mere state- 

 ment of opinion on the facts observed, but shall follow, if possible 



