Excerpt from International Congress of Arts and Science, Vol. 10: Anthropology and Mental Science, Comprising Lecturers on Ethnology, History of Anthropology, Archaeology, Somatology, Comparative and Genetic Psychology, General and Abnormal Psychology, Problems of Sociology, and Social Structure Astronomy led writing (as the constellations attest), while mathematics followed close on writing and records, as its symbols Show, and both belonged to what may be called the Naissance of Knowledge; chemistry appeared during the same period, bear ing the prophecy Of physics caught by Archimedes, yet remained a helpless weakling the foil and puppet of medievalism throughout the whole of the Dark Ages; but during the Renais sance the trio of elder sciences gained strength together and as sumed lasting dominion over the realm of knowledge. Because their birth dates back to or beyond the beginning of records, the early stages of these sciences are imperfectly written; but the youngest science, anthropology, buys methods and principles from the more exact elders and pays amply in coin of history; for by tracing the careers of later-born or slower-grown folk and cults, anthropologists learn to retrace the lost steps in the careers of ancestral peoples and early cultures. Here lie some Of the re lations between anthropology and the elder sciences; she receives exact methods tested by millenniums Of experience, and gives interpretations of the ideas and motives, the arts and accomplish ments, the modes of thought and the stages of progress, of the earliest science-makers. Astronomy and mathematics and chem istry are systems of knowledge produced by men and minds, anthropology is systematic knowledge Of these producers; and neither the old sciences nor the new can be rendered complete and stable without the support of the others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.