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to assure them from my own humble experience that such 
a study will bring with it in the shape, at any rate, of personal 
satisfaction and delight, an adequate reward for the time spent 
and trouble taken. Every earnest student of the science will, I 
doubt not, realise in his own experience the truth and force of 
what Sir Richard Temple said of Anthropology :— 
‘“* There is hardly any better hobby in existence than this. 
or one that can be ridden with greater pleasure. It cannot, of 
course, be mastered in a day. At first the lessons will be 
agrind. Then, until they are well learnt, they are irksome, but 
when fullness of knowledge and maturity of judgment are 
attained, there is, perhaps, no keener sense of satisfaction which 
human beings can experience than that which is afforded by its 
study. Its range is so wide, its phases so very many, the 
interests involved in it so various, that it cannot fail to 
pleasantly occupy the leisure hours from youth to full manhood, 
and to be a solace, in some aspect or other, in advanced 
life and old age.”’ 
It is not, however, merely the mental satisfaction to the 
individual student, that anthropological study and investigation 
will bring with it in India. Such investigation, properly pur- 
from rushing into hasty conclusions and premature generaliza- 
tions from inadequate and unsifted data, we may expect to 
ound, in time, a sober well-equipped Indian School of Anthro- 
pology to which the scientific world will look for a correct inter- 
pretation of the evolution of Indian man—his racial affinities. 
_ better insight and consequently with a greater approach to 
scientific accuracy than foreign investigators, however assiduous 
and sympathetic, can ever hope to attain. And thus, and thus 
alone, will Indian scholarship be enabled, in the fullness of 
time, to bring its own peculiar and invaluable contributions to 
Anthropology as it brought in the remote past to Philology. 
Philosophy and Metaphysics, as it has brought in our own days 
to Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics and as it is expected 
to bring in the not very distant future to other sciences as well. 
