Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . thnic analysis can not at the best reach furtherback than to secondary origin. And the primary physical brother-hood of all branches of the white race, nay, I will go even furtherand say of all the races of men, must be admitted on faith—not onthe faith of dogma but on the faith of scientific probability. It isonly in their degree of physical and mental evolution that the racesof men are different. You have your white mans burden to bearin India; we have ours to bear with the American negro and theFilipinos. But an even gre
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . thnic analysis can not at the best reach furtherback than to secondary origin. And the primary physical brother-hood of all branches of the white race, nay, I will go even furtherand say of all the races of men, must be admitted on faith—not onthe faith of dogma but on the faith of scientific probability. It isonly in their degree of physical and mental evolution that the racesof men are different. You have your white mans burden to bearin India; we have ours to bear with the American negro and theFilipinos. But an even greater responsibility with us and with ourCanadian fellow-citizens is that of the Anglo-Saxons burden —toso nourish, uplift, and inspire all these immigrant peoples of Europethat in due course of time, even if the physical stock be inundatedby the engulfing flood, the torch of Anglo-Saxon civilization andideals, borne by our fathers from England to America, shall yet burnas bright and clear in the New World, as your fires have continued toilluminate the Old. 2 / I. THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA AND ITS PEOPLE, WITHSPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE INDIANS. [With 14 plates.] By Eleanor Yoeke Bell. INTRODUCTION. The object of this paper has been chiefly to collect and record thesomewhat scanty and widely scattered data concerning the PanamaIsthmus, much of which is not available to the average reader, beingwritten in either the Spanish or the French language, especially themost valuable information in regard to the aborigines. An attempthas also been made to describe the scenery and the natives (in manyinstances from personal observation), and to reconcile widely di-vergent statements, as given by various authorities, when occasionedonty b}^ minor mistakes, such as the confusing of geographicalnames, etc. The notes throughout are numbered and refer to the list of booksconsulted. Of the 31,571 square miles comprising the Republic of Panamaonly a small section is known to the foreigner, and even
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