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The Study of Man

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IN this address I propose to give a sketch of the progress that has recently been made in some of the manifold branches of study concerned with the nature and history of man and his achievements, and to suggest how they can be correlated and integrated as a real science of man with a distinctive discipline.

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SMITH, G. The Study of Man. Nature 112, 440–444 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112440a0

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