The Mongol in our midst : a study of man and his three faces / by F. G. Crookshank.

  • Francis Graham Crookshank
Date:
1924
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    AUTHOR'S NOTE Everyone remembers, but not many seriously adopt, the plan of the young gentleman who, writing for the Eatanswill Gazette on Chinese Metaphysics, looked up in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, China under the letter 'C,' Metaphysics under the letter ' M,' and combined his information. Yet the method is sometimes quite a good one, and to-day Medicine and Ethnology certainly have need of ' Combined Information/ In this very little book I have ventured to combine gleanings in several fields with some original observations. But these observations, although sus¬ ceptible of prompt verification by any intelligent person who cares to look around him, have been gently though firmly put out of court by those to whom they have been introduced, on the excellent ground that they appear to involve con¬ clusions highly inconvenient to orthodox medical and scientific dogmatists. And, as always, when observations and dogmas clash, it is so much easier to ignore what can be observed than it is to renounce what has been asserted. The numbers in the text refer to the list of authorities at the end of the volume. F.G.C. [5]