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inable scorching sand,' and to bring its waters safely through two 

 thousand miles of arid, thirsty plain, in order to mingle them 

 with the blue waves of the Mediterranean." 



Darwin and Anthropology. — When weeping friends gather 

 to pay their last respects over the grave of a great pilot, the 

 reigning thought in the minds of those who had sailed with him 

 in former years would be the recollection of pleasant days and 

 nights, narrow escapes, and almost miraculous deliverances. So 

 perfectly Jiuman would be this oneness with the dead that for a 

 time the gallant ship, the faithful sailors, and the helpful passen- 

 gers would be quite forgotten, or else all their good qualities 

 would be merged and blended with the virtues of this one heroic 

 soul. 



In attempting to study the connections of Charles Darwin with 

 the natural history of man, we are embarrassed by this same feel- 

 ing. We realize that in twenty-three years we have come a great 

 journey, we have passed by innumerable shoals and quicksands, 

 we have made decided progress in the right direction. How 

 much of this work was done by Mr. Darwin? How much did 

 he immediately inspire? How much was accomplished by those 

 who had drank of his inspiration? How much was the logical 

 fruit of seed which he had sown? How much was the outcome 

 of opposition to him ? In the brief space allowed to this note of 

 regret, discussion of these topics would be impossible. Suffice it 

 to say, there is no one acquainted with the progress of anthro- 

 pology who will not admit that a great part of our latest anthro- 

 pological research has been carried on through one of the motives 

 enumerated above. 



No doubt, in archaeology, in anthropo-biology, in the elabora- 

 • tion of industries or comparative technology, it was known be- 

 fore Mr. Darwin's day that there had been evolution, selection, 

 survival of the fittest. The great merit of Mr. Darwin's work 

 and influence in anthropology had been the application of tne 

 sime rule to anthropogeny, archaeology, biology of man, evolu- 

 tion of races, of mentality, of language, of arts, of society, ot _ 

 philosophy, of creed, of cult, and of the amelioration of the race 

 through better knowledge of and better adaptation to the environ- 

 ment, taking the word in its widest acceptation. 



Although the greater part of Mr. Darwin's influence upon an- 

 thropology has been indirectly exerted, his own personal contri- 

 butions were of no mean order. Long before he had public \) 

 made the application of the doctrine of descent to include tne 

 human race, his disciples had boldly affirmed that man, so far as 

 his body is concerned, is no exception to the great law of the con- 

 sanguinity ot eS . The publication of the Descent 

 of Man and the work on the expression of emotions convinced a 

 readers, however, that the man with a thousand eyes had be 



