they are broad headed or brachy eephaJous. Ajiothei- will 

 form an er^ually grea.t. theory absolutely opposed to tiio 

 first based on the assumption that the race is doliehocephal- 

 ous. Or sometimes the same assumed characteristics will 

 lead to absoluteh' diverse conclusions. "There is nothing 

 so deceitful a.R facts, except figures," and statistics are 

 more deceitful than either. Almost every scientist has hiB 

 own axe to grind in the shape of a pet theory to prove, 

 and he often twists his facts to> prove it, or makes the poor 

 misused facts point in quite a different way from that in 

 which nature intended them to point. In fact, there is no 

 branch of ecience where there is go much unwarranted as- 

 sumption, so many great theories built each on small and 

 doubtful fact lilce mverted pyramids, as in Ethnology. 



One man tries to prove or assumes the common origin 

 of two' very different peoples, from the fact that they both 

 use the boomerang. Another confidently assumes an origin 

 as proved by asserting that there is a language connection ; 

 whereas the &a.id connection may be absolutely denied by 

 all who haven't this theory to prove. Everyone strives for 

 novelty or originality, and often for novelty rather than 

 truth. 



In this, mass of conflicting theories and mendacious 

 facts the writer has selected uhat seemed reasonable to 

 himself. Every possible theory is held by someone, so he 

 cannot claim any originality. He has no hope of making 

 a name for himself as an Ethnologist, so- he has no tempta- 

 tion to twist facts. lie can only claim that his theories 

 are formed after some investigation and not swallowed 

 predigested from some other writer on the subject. 



The writer has a great number of pictures on this sub- 

 ject, all taken by himself. Over a hundred of these were 

 fihown with the lecture, but unfortunately only a few coxdd 

 be published, and for this reason the paper loses much of 

 its value. 



It is not at all difficult to tell the different races, but 

 it is very difficult to^ say how you distinguish them, and it is 



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