Page:A History of American Anthropology.pdf/21

Rh Comparing diverse disconnected areas like India and Eur-America, it was found that the periods of inception, growth and maturation in time were coincident in spiritual thought schools in the former and in objective science in the latter according to the respective culture patterns of each. Specific ideas, like the coming of the American Indian viá the Behring Strait supposed to be found by the Jesup expedition in 1897, have been traced to DuPonceau's Notes in 1820, using identical philological arguments, and still earlier, to Adair in his American Indian (1775) and the theological conjectures of the early Spanish fathers which often included it as an alternative. So each branch like philology, archaeology and physical anthropology as well as ethnology has been found to have some adumbration in the Proto-Anthropological period of New Spain and Early French and English explorations, differentiation and growth in the period of American history from 1783 to the Civil war, maturation from the period of the Civil war to the beginning of the 20th century and synthesis in the past two and a half decades, preparing the way for a greater synthesis of the subjective East and objective West and for a broader and deeper world-culture.

2