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35234Is it not then the duty of our government to be represented in this new and wide field?
18869Now, why did Burton make this statement?
35685We are like the birds of the air,said a Kuki to T. C. Hodson,"we make our nests here this year, and who knows where we shall build next year[409]?"
35685# Hottentots#:_ Wa- Sandawi(?
35685# Negrilloes#:_ Akka_;_ Wochua_;_ Dume(?
35685), the whole representing a money value of about £ 4,000,000(?).
35685)_;_ Doko(?
35685)_;_ Wandorobbo(?
35685? Kwakiutl( Wakashan stock).
35685Are they to be really taken as objectively one, or are they merely artificial groupings, arbitrarily arranged abstractions?
35685Are we then to conclude that there have been Hindu invasions and settlements in all these regions, the most populous on the globe?
35685But here arises the more important question, by what right are so many and such diverse peoples grouped together and ticketed"Caucasians"?
35685But whence came the hundreds of Aztec names in the lands between Chiapas and Nicaragua?
35685Did they bring their different languages with them, or were these specialised in their new upland homes?
35685Egypt[95] Babylonia[96] Aegean[97] Greece[98] Bronze Age in Europe[99] 3300 Dynasty I 3200 3100 3000 Dynasty of Opis? Early? Pre- Mycenean 2900 Dyn.
35685Egypt[95] Babylonia[96] Aegean[97] Greece[98] Bronze Age in Europe[99] 3300 Dynasty I 3200 3100 3000 Dynasty of Opis? Early? Pre- Mycenean 2900 Dyn.
35685Here it may be asked, What is to be thought of the already- mentioned pebble- markings from the Mas- d''Azil Cave at the close of the Old Stone Age?
35685How is its presence in East Central Asia, including Manchuria and Korea, to be explained?
35685IV.)?
35685IV.,"Whence came the Acheans?"
35685Individuals worship the shades of their immediate ancestors or elder relatives; and the_ k''omas_[ souls?]
35685Is it a wonder that the clothes do not fit?
35685Mpondo||_______|_______ Ama- Tembus Palo( 1780?)
35685Nirvana?
35685The earlier Achaian(?)
35685The question is, Can all these have come from North Africa?
35685The recent finds in Bosnia also[1277], besides the historically proved(?)
35685Thus with the root,_ ahong_, come, and infix_ jám_, slow, is formed the retardative_ náng ahongjámrangmoh_,"will- you- come- slowly?"
35685To what cause is to be attributed this profound modification of this branch of the Nordic type in the direction of the south?
35685W. Ridgeway,_ Who were the Romans?_ 1908.
35685When rallied for burning flash notes at a popular shrine, since no spirit- bank would cash them, a Chinaman retorted:"Why me burn good note?
35685Where did this babel of tongues come from?
35685Where have we to seek the primeval home of this most vigorous and dominant branch of the human family?
35685[ 1058]_ Early Age of Greece_, 1901, p. 237 ff., and"Who were the Romans?"
35685[ 1261] H. Zimmer,"Auf welchen Wege kamen die Goidelen vom Kontinent nach Irland?"
35685[ 145]"Chaque fois que j''ai demandé avec intention à un Mandé,''Es- tu Peul, Mossi, Dafina?''
35685[ 776]"Whence came the American Indians?"
35685_______________________/\________________________/\ Tembu Xosa( 1530?)
35685unconscious rest or absorption in the eternal essence?
17280And now where is yours?
17280However else would a reasonable being think of acting?
17280Why should I do this?
17280Why,said Mr. Shaw,"did the mice continue to grow tails?
17280( the god''s name), so that we can not be sure whether the dancers are indulging in a prayer or in an incantation-- is that religion?
17280***** We have completed our very rapid regional survey of the world; and what do we find?
17280***** What, then, you exclaim, is the outcome of this chapter of negatives?
17280Again, how are you going to isolate an instinct?
17280And now what about philosophy?
17280And what are the sources of his information?
17280And what becomes of the miner''s output?
17280And what does this stand for in terms of the antiquity of man?
17280And why did the American redskins never tame the bison, and adopt a pastoral life in their vast prairies?
17280Are the spear- thrower and the bull- roarer inevitably thought of as alive?
17280Are they natural crystallizations that take place when people are thrown together?
17280Are we here on the track of the original dispersal of man?
17280As regards the word, call it science, or history, or anthropology, or anything else-- what does it matter?
17280But are these round- heads all of one race?
17280But can it?
17280But do use and disuse make any difference to the race?
17280But how, it may be objected, does evolution take place, if every one imitates every one else?
17280But is the elimination selective?
17280But what about the instinct or group of instincts answering to sex?
17280But what are these laws?
17280But"Why should I not do something else instead?"
17280CHAPTER VIII RELIGION"How can there be a History of Religions?"
17280Can colour serve for a race- mark in this profound sense?
17280Can we make out their meaning at all?
17280Coming now to the analysis of the forms of society, the beginner must first of all face the problem:"What makes a people one?"
17280Does a savage, for instance, when he is hammering at a piece of flint think of it as other than a"thing,"any more than we should?
17280Does it make any difference?
17280Does some one invent them?
17280Does the very notion of organization imply an organizer?
17280First of all, what is the use of being coloured one way or the other?
17280Firstly, then, what is the ideal scope of anthropology?
17280Given this inheritance, and this environment, how are we, by taking thought and taking risks, to achieve the best- under- the- circumstances?
17280Had the rest of the palaeolithic men already followed the reindeer and other arctic animals towards the north- east?
17280Had they eaten him?
17280How are we to explain these facts, supposing them to be corroborated by more extensive studies?
17280How do the forms of social organization come into being?
17280How do we anthropologists propose to combat this tendency?
17280How far do these different distributions bear each other out?
17280How would you set about the business?
17280How, then, can we say what is the type to breed from, even if we confine our attention to one country?
17280How, then, you may well inquire, does the pre- historian get to work?
17280I am not going far afield into such questions as: Who were the mound- builders of North America?
17280If the hereditarily long- headed can change under suitable conditions, then what about the hereditarily short- witted?
17280If the skull can be so affected, then what about the brain inside it?
17280In what sense, if any, is social organization dependent on numbers?
17280Is history science?
17280Is it because these things can not be done, or because man has not found out how to do them?
17280Is it driving at the universal equality and brotherhood of man?
17280Is it something, like the heart- line of the hand, that may go along with useful qualities, but in itself seems to be a meaningless accident?
17280Is, then, to attribute"virtue"the same thing, necessarily, as to attribute vitality?
17280Now what is a"spiritual being"?
17280Now what, in terms of mind, does crisis mean?
17280Now wherefore all this lack of earnestness?
17280Once man was across, what was the manner of his distribution?
17280Or are they, as a matter of course, endowed with soul or spirit?
17280Or did the neolithic invasion, which came from the south, wipe out the lot?
17280Or may there be also an impersonal kind of"virtue,""medicine,"or whatever the wonder- working power in the wonder- working thing is to be called?
17280Or was there a commingling of stocks, and may some of us have a little dose of palaeolithic blood, as we certainly have a large dose of neolithic?
17280Or why do modern black folk and white folk alike in Africa fail to utilize the elephant?
17280Or, like Topsy, do they simply grow?
17280Or, on the contrary, does it hint at the need of a stern system of eugenics?
17280Race must count for something, or why do not the other animals take a leaf out of our book and build up rival civilizations on suitable sites?
17280Situation, race and culture-- to reduce it to a problem of three terms only-- which of the three, if any, in the long run controls the rest?
17280Taken at its fullest and best, what ought it to comprise?
17280The question then arises, Which, for the Veddas, is the older system, marrying- out or marrying- in?
17280The upshot of these considerations is that if the totem is, on the face of it, a name, the savage answers the question,"What''s in a name?"
17280Thousands of years?
17280Thus if the question be"Who will help?"
17280To what extent, then, must our novice pay attention to the history of language?
17280True, you say, but what about the influence of their various climates, or again of their different ideals of behaviour?
17280Well, now let us hie to Lingheath, not far off, and what do we find?
17280What are the functions of philosophy as contrasted with science?
17280What could be more stupefying than to shut yourself up in a closet and swallow your own gas?
17280What departments must he attend in turn?
17280What does it do, then?
17280What excites these movements?
17280What had happened?
17280What happens now?
17280What happens then in the primitive society?
17280What is his method of linking facts together?
17280What is the cause that has created this variety?
17280What is the geographical and physical theatre of that epoch?
17280What is the significance of this change?
17280What is the truth that Darwinism supposes?
17280What is to be the test of mind?
17280What light, then, does the study of primitive society throw on the first beginnings of family law as administered by the house- father?
17280What, then, are the limits of the geographical control?
17280What, then, are to be the relations between anthropology and philosophy?
17280What, then, is Darwinism?
17280When out with her I would say,''What is out there like men walking?''
17280Where does its influence begin and end?
17280Which of the two batches of children will tend on the whole to have the stronger legs?
17280Who knows, for instance, the final truth about what happens to the soul at death?
17280Why do men herd cattle, instead of the cattle herding the men?
17280Why does the giraffe have so long a neck?
17280Why?
17280Will it therefore tend to disappear?
17280Will the one invasion prove an incident, he asks, and the other an event, as judged by a history of long perspective?
17280Yes, but what if some of the heaps showed signs of having been upset?
17280Yes, but why did man tame the horse later rather than sooner?
17280Yet who ever observed the slightest signs of beardlessness being produced in this way?
17280Yet, granting this, do we thus reach a criterion whereby the different races of men are to be distinguished?
46643Why do you beat your little sister?
46643Why do you kill all the pigeons?
46643( two books or two pictures) and which of the two is the larger?
46643And even in school can we be sure that the child whom we judge the most intelligent is actually so?
46643And in our social environment who is superior and who is inferior?
46643And where could we conceive of a possible laboratory for such a science, if not in the school itself?
46643And, indeed, how is it possible to bring the entire person posteriorly in contact with the vertical rod of the anthropometer?
46643Are literary productions and the acquisition of laurels reliable tests of intelligence?
46643Are the dominant forces in the human germinative cells those which bring a contribution of beauty?
46643Are the general ideas of time, space, conventional measurements, relative value, intrinsic or arbitrary, understood and applied in actual daily life?
46643Are they really those who have attained the higher academic degrees and the most eminent social positions?
46643Are you hungry?
46643At what age is one old?
46643But is it practicable, and to what extent?
46643But of what class of mothers are we supposed to be speaking?
46643But what are evil tendencies of the mind?
46643Do you always feel well?
46643Do you ever dream at night?
46643Do you hate anyone?
46643Do you know the meaning of rewards and punishments?
46643Do you know the meaning of right and wrong?
46643Do you love some playmate, or some friend?
46643For where is it that we find the triumphant success of science?
46643Granting the social phenomenon of_ crime_, we ought to ask ourselves: where does the fault lie?
46643Has he a perception of the physical proportion of bodies, such as colour, form, dimensions, relations between the parts to form a whole?
46643Has the child a sense of abstract right and wrong or only in relation to a small number of acts that concern himself?
46643Has the forehead always been a human characteristic, or have we acquired it little by little?
46643Have his attitude toward music and mathematics, enjoyment of singing, irresistible desire to sing, been brought about naturally?
46643Have we, however, the right to compare a volumetric measure( the cerebral mass) with a linear measure( the stature)?
46643Have you any brothers?
46643Have you any sisters?
46643Having established these very obvious principles, we may ask ourselves: of two men of equal stature, which is physiologically the more efficient?
46643How do you know that a man is old?
46643How is this physiological law, which nature expresses in such broad, general lines, to be interpreted by us in the environment of the school?
46643How many persons are there in your home?
46643How many rooms are there?
46643How old are you?
46643If the Lombrosian theory rests upon a basis of truth, what attitude should we pedagogists take on the question of moral education?
46643In a word, whence are we to get the content of any positive science, if not from practical application?
46643Is individual variation due solely to causes of environment, such as nutrition and exercise?
46643Is it then no longer a sin to do evil and no longer a merit to do good?
46643Is there a quantitative relation between these two manifestations, the morphological and the psychic?
46643Is this man a doctor because he is more intelligent, and that man a hospital attendant because he is less intelligent?
46643Is your father( or mother) old or young?
46643Is your home large or small?
46643Now, if we take various different numbers of individuals, shall we obtain different mean statures?
46643Now, why do we not also educate the voice for its ordinary task of the spoken language?
46643Or if he died?
46643The attainment of its most profound purposes?
46643Upon what does the cerebral volume depend, in all its individual variations, resting on the common biological bases of race, normality and sex?
46643We began by asking:"How are we to educate them"?
46643What are the obstacles which they are being taught, through so much suffering, to surmount and to conquer?
46643What are these?
46643What becomes of these individuals who, even in childhood, reveal themselves as the future rebels and enemies of society?
46643What day of the month is it?
46643What day of the week?
46643What do you dream?
46643What is it for?
46643What is it for?
46643What is the reward of so great a sacrifice?
46643What is this?
46643What is this?
46643What is your father''s business?
46643What is your mamma''s name?
46643What is your name?
46643What month is it?
46643What season of the year?
46643What sort of a preparation in ideals and in character are they giving to the new generations through such disastrous means?
46643What sort of characteristics are the dominant ones?
46643What time is it now, more or less?
46643What would we think of such reforms and such a path toward an orthopedic state of society?
46643What would you do if he were very sick?
46643What would you do if( the person named) were hungry?
46643What year is it?
46643What, in short, is the spiritual gain achieved at the cost of so great an impoverishment of the body?
46643When are you hungry?
46643Where are you at the present moment?
46643Where do you live?
46643Wherein lies the special strength of this little, feeble being, who has become the lord of the earth?
46643Which of these three glasses has the most water in it?
46643Which will weigh the most and which the least of the three?
46643Who, for instance, does not know that the conduct and the sentiments of an individual may become unbalanced through the effects of poison or disease?
46643Whom do you love most?
46643Why do you love him?
46643Why?
46643Without which, who would ever have perfected the microscope, or the science of bacteriology?
46643_ Pathogenesis of Infantilism._--At this point it might be asked: Why do we grow?
46643_ The Influence of the Biological Factor upon Cerebral Development._--What conclusion ought we to reach from what has been said up to this point?
46643_ What Sort of Man is the Most Intelligent?_--Straightway, a first serious objection suggests itself: What sort of persons are the most intelligent?
46643_ Who is Socially Superior?_--But here again we may ask, as we did regarding the question of intelligence: What constitutes social superiority?
46643to what end?