. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. ANTHROPOLOGY. 501 4. Comparative psychology or phrenology. 6. Ethnology. C. Glossology. 7. Comparative technology. 8. Sociology. 9. Daimonology or pnenmatology. 10. Hexiology. 11. Instrumentalities of research. It is well known to all students of nature that knowledge passes through three stages. The first is the observing and descriptive stage, in which the universe is explored for new materials and facts. The sec- ond is the inductive and
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. ANTHROPOLOGY. 501 4. Comparative psychology or phrenology. 6. Ethnology. C. Glossology. 7. Comparative technology. 8. Sociology. 9. Daimonology or pnenmatology. 10. Hexiology. 11. Instrumentalities of research. It is well known to all students of nature that knowledge passes through three stages. The first is the observing and descriptive stage, in which the universe is explored for new materials and facts. The sec- ond is the inductive and classifying stage in which facts and materials are arranged according to dijffering bases and general principles arrived at. The third is the deductive or predictive stage, the true scientific stei), in which the laics and the true nature-of things are ascertained with such accuracy that new consequences may be deduced, and the recurrence of phenomena, under certain circumstances, may be pre- dicted. A scheme of nomenclature is presented below merely as a sug- gestion, in order to ascertain the opinion of anthropologists as to its merits. To represent the three stages mentioned above, the Greek words Tpafrji ^oyoq, and v<5,ao<; are chosen to furnish the significant termi- nation, agreeably to established analogy. As will be seen, a difficulty occurs with psychology and phrenology, and with the terms denoting the spirit world together with the actions and apparatus growing out of it. These difiiculties have been noticed under the appropriate head. As the genesis or origin of anything is essentially speculative, how- ever necessary, the first term of our technical series does not admit of this tripartite division: Antliropcgeny (undifferentiated,)* Observing and descriptive Deductive aud predictive stage. (v6/uof) Anthropography. Arclia30CTaphy .. Biograpuy Psychograpliy Phreuograpliy. .. Ethnography Glossography Technography Sociography Pueuuiatography Daimonograp
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