ANTHROPOLOGY. 



CHAPTER I. 

 PREHISTORIC RACES. 



i. In the congress of German naturalists and 

 physicians held at Wiesbaden, the celebrated Berlin 

 professor, Virchow, delivered an address on the 

 progress of anthropology and biology. Reviewing, 

 under the double aspect of prehistoric and historic 

 man, the present state of anthropology, he ex- 

 pounded several views at considerable length. An- 

 thropology is the science which treats of the human 

 species in its natural groups and general formation. 

 It involves the study of all human characteristics, 

 as well physical, physiological and pathological, as 

 moral, social, and political. The professor stated 

 that, as to prehistoric anthropology, every positive 

 advance which we had made in that study had re- 

 moved us farther than before from any proof of 

 evolution to be found there. Man has not arisen 

 from the ape, nor has any ape-man existed linking 

 the two species together. Then, as to historic races, 

 he proved that the Australian, which is quoted as 

 being the most imperfect among them, is shown to 



9 



