ON 
THE EELATION OF THE SLAVONIANS 
TO THE OTHER 
INDO-EUROPEAN NATIONS. 
BY W. S. L. SZYRMA, B.A. 
The Science of Causation is one that now is attracting the chief 
attention of the scientific world. We are growing tired of the study 
of mere phenomena, we seek to discover their causes. We arc 
not satisfied with knowing what a thing is, but wish to find out why 
it is. In both moral and physical science this advance is manifest. 
In Physical Research the inquiry into the " Origin of Species" shews 
our proneness to the study of Causation. The Hypothesis of 
Darwin may rest on insufficient bases with regard to animal creation, 
for as yet our grounds of reasoning are meagre and insufficient, 
but when, narrowing our field of view, we apply his theory to the 
development of the human race, the formation of divers nations 
from a common origin, and the causes which produce national 
peculiarities, become a most important and interesting enquiry, for, 
as the Poet says : — 
" The Proper Study of Mankind is Man." 
