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LIBRISEXBERTRAM.C.AWINDLEO.Sc.M.DANTHROPOLOGY."7ANTHROPOLOGYfAN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OFMAN AND CIVILIZATION.EYEDWARD B. F.R.S.TYLOR, D.C.L.,r/mi ILLUSTRATIONS.:JfmibonMACJMILLAN AND CO.1881.The TranslationRight of and isReproduction Reserved.R. CI.AY. ANDSoxs, TAYLOR,BREAD STREET HILL, E.G.PREFACE.when of education have itIN times subjects multiplied,seem at first a to on themay sight hardship lay alreadyBut will bestudent a new science. it foundheavily-pressedreal is rather tothat the effect of lightenAnthropologythan increase the strain of In the mountains welearning.asee the bearers of burdens shoulderheavy contentedlybecause find its morebesides,carrying-frame they weightthan the convenience ofcompensated by holding togetherand their load. So it is with the science ofbalancingMan and which connects into a moreCivilization, manage-able whole the scattered of an education.subjects ordinaryMuch of the of and inlies thedifficulty teachinglearningscholar's not what each science or art isseeing clearly for,what its is the of life, If he knowsplace among purposesof its and how it arose from thesomething early history,wants and circumstances of finds him-simpler hemankind,self better able to hold of it than as too oftenlay when,he is called on to take an abstruse nothappens, up subjectat the but in the middle. When he has learntbeginningof man's rudest means ofsomething conversing by gesturesand and thence has beencries, led to ...
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LIBRISEX
BERTRAM.C.A
WINDLE
O.Sc.M.D ANTHROPOLOGY. "7ANTHROPOLOGYf
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF
MAN AND CIVILIZATION.
EY
EDWARD B. F.R.S.TYLOR, D.C.L.,
r/mi ILLUSTRATIONS.
:Jfmibon
MACJMILLAN AND CO.
1881.
The TranslationRight of and isReproduction Reserved. R. CI.AY. ANDSoxs, TAYLOR,
BREAD STREET HILL, E.G. PREFACE.
when of education have itIN times subjects multiplied,
seem at first a to on themay sight hardship lay already
But will bestudent a new science. it foundheavily-pressed
real is rather tothat the effect of lightenAnthropology
than increase the strain of In the mountains we
learning.
asee the bearers of burdens shoulderheavy contentedly
because find its morebesides,carrying-frame they weight
than the convenience ofcompensated by holding together
and their load. So it is with the science ofbalancing
Man and which connects into a moreCivilization, manage-
able whole the scattered of an education.subjects ordinary
Much of the of and inlies thedifficulty teachinglearning
scholar's not what each science or art isseeing clearly for,
what its is the of life, If he knowsplace among purposes
of its and how it arose from thesomething early history,
wants and circumstances of finds him-simpler hemankind,
self better able to hold of it than as too oftenlay when,
he is called on to take an abstruse nothappens, up subject
at the but in the middle. When he has learntbeginning
of man's rudest means ofsomething conversing by gestures
and and thence has beencries, led to see how the higher PREFACE.vi
on sucharticulate aredevices of speech improvements
in the science ofhe makes a fairer startlower methods,
theif lie had fallenthan unprepared amonglanguage
likeof which looksubtleties grammar, unexplained
than to inform.rules framed to ratherarbitrary perplex
The dislike of so to as ex-many beginners geometry
of threethe fact that not one outEuklid,pounded by
is of allever understands what he is thingsreally doing,
the scholar not shown first thedue to practicalbeing
common-sense where the oldstarting point, carpenters
dis-and bujlders to make out the relations ofbegan
tances and in their work. So the law-studentspaces
at once into the intricacies ofplunges legal systems
which have thethegrown up reforms,through struggles,
and even the blunders of thousands of heyears } yet
have made his clearer how lawsmight way by seeing
in their framed to meet the needsforms,begin simplest
of and barbaric tribes. It is needless to makesavage
a list of all the branches of education in andknowledge
art there is not one which thenot be easier and; may
better learnt for its and in theknowing history place
science of Man.
general
With this aim in the volume is an in-view, present
troduction to rather than a ofAnthropology, summary
all it teaches. It does not deal with technicalstrictly
out of the reach of readers who havematter^ received,
or are the education.receiving, ordinary higher English
to students trained in theThus, except minuteanatomy,
modern researches as to distinction of races skullby
measurements and the like would be useless. Much care
