Excerpt from The Influence of Anthropology on the Course of Political Science, Vol. 4

Anthropology is the Science of Man. Its full task is nothing less than this, to observe and record, to classify and interpret, all the activities of all the varieties of this species of living being. In the general scheme of knowledge, therefore, anthropology holds a double place, according to our own point of view. From one standpoint it falls into the position of a department of zoology, or geography; of zoology, since man, considered as a natural species, forms only one small part of the animal population of this planet; of geography, because his reason, considered simply as one of the forces which change the face of nature, has, as we shall see directly, a range which is almost worldwide. From another point of view anthropology itself, in the strictest sense of the world, is seen to embrace and include whole sciences such as psychology, sociology, and the rational study of art and literature; since each of these vast department of knowledge is concerned solely with a single group of the manifold activities of man.

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