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 REVIEW EXTRAORDINARY. 



The following article is reprinted verbatim from the American Anthro- 

 pologist for January, 1893. 



The language is so extraordinary for the discussion or review of matters 

 of science that occasional words are put in capitals which in the origi- 

 nal are in ordinary type. 



The letters in heavy black type refer to notes occasionally added to cor- 

 rect mistakes, where tangible and definite charges are made. 



MAN AND THE GLACIAL PERIOD. 



By W J McGee. 



Wheresoever workers assemble, there IDLERS (A) gather to feast on 

 the fruits of honest toil ; a part are PITIABLE PAUPERS, some traf- 

 fic in UNWHOLESOME WARES, others SWINDLE THE UN- 

 WARY under the cloak of honest dealing and CHEAT JUSTICE by 

 specious pleas, and still others STEAL AND ROB. Thus the laborer is 

 always the prey of the idler, and progressive mankind is handicapped by 

 the burden of the helpless and the perverse. 



In like manner the workshops and market -places of science are haunted 

 by HARPIES ; a part are the feeble of mind who always absorb but never 

 produce, some STARVE AND POISON hungry minds with the husks 

 of FICTION and the lotus of myth, others FOIST FALSEHOOD on the 

 unwary under the guise of science and HIDE FROM JUSTICE behind 

 shields of skillfully -woven words, and still others scoff at reason and rob 

 knowledge of its glory. Thus creative genius is the prey of intellectual 

 PARASITES, and the progress of knowledge is hindered by the help- 

 less and the perverse. 



Anthropology is the youngest of the sciences, and even yet is barely 

 crystallized out of the original magma of unsystemic (B) thought; more- 



(Note A) Observe the natural flow of language and easy grace of the 

 reviewer in this style of writing. 



(Note B) One of Mr. McGee's words, not yet in the Century 

 Dictionary. 



