man as fired and pervaded by the idea of evolution. Man in
evolution--that is the subject in its full reach. Anthropology studies
man as he occurs at all known times. It studies him as he occurs in all
known parts of the world. It studies him body and soul together--as a
bodily organism, subject to conditions operating in time and space,
which bodily organism is in intimate relation with a soul-life, also
subject to those same conditions. Having an eye to such conditions from
first to last, it seeks to plot out the general series of the changes,
bodily and mental together, undergone by man in the course of his
history. Its business is simply to describe. But, without exceeding the
limits of its scope, it can and must proceed from the particular to the
general; aiming at nothing less than a descriptive formula that shall
sum up the whole series of changes
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