hropology was
to maintain its high position as a real science, its alliance with
linguistic studies could not be too close. Its weakest points had
always been those where it trusted to the statements of authorities
ignorant of language and of the science of language. Its greatest
triumphs had been achieved by men such as Dr. Hahn, Bishops Callaway
and Colenso, Dr. W. Gill and last, not least, Mr. Man, who had
combined the minute accuracy of the scholar with the comprehensive
grasp of the anthropologist, and were thus enabled to use the key of
language to unlock the perplexities of savage customs, savage laws and
legends, and, particularly, of savage religions and mythologies. If
this alliance between anthropology and philology became real, then,
and then only, might we hope to see Bunsen's prophecy fulfilled, that
anthropology would become the highest branch of that science for which
the British Association was instituted.

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