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Sign up Log in. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. Metropolitan Museum Cleveland Museum of Art. Internet Arcade Console Living Room. Open Library American Libraries. Search the Wayback Machine Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. Sign up for free Log in. Hitherto our attention has been directed mainly to the ana- tomical characters of fossil man because these characters were the first to come to the surface.
Indeed, human and compara- tive anatomy, throughout its long history, dating back to the Greeks, has never enjoyed a series of triumphs greater than the philosophic interpretation of fossilized remains which are too of ten fragmentary and incomplete. The anatomy of prehis- toric man by these very triumphs has won afar larger share of attention than his higher characteristics. We shall in time be in a position to tell with great precision the whole story of the physical ascent of man the story of his food, of his bodily habits and customs, of his modes of locomotion whether walk- ing or climbing, of his ever increasing capacity for the use of tools, for the chasing of game and for physical and intellectual contests with bis fellow-man.
In studying all these anatomical attributes for example, the form, weight, and psychic areas on the surface of the human brain the point we shall chiefly i Professor Edward D. In other words, the higher philosophical interpretations of crude anatomical and archaeological facts lead up to the higher central theme of these lectures, namely, how man rose to Parnassus.
