X.
The simple record of facts constitutes ethnography, or descriptive ethnology.
XI.
The application of these to the investigation of unascertained phænomena is general ethnology, or (simply) ethnology.
XII.
The highest ethnological problems are those connected with, 1. the unity; 2. the geographical origin; 3. the antiquity; and 4. the future destination upon earth of man. It arrives at these by its own proper and peculiar methods.
XIII.
Ethnological classification deals with connexion in the way of descent and affiliation only.—It has no such object as the arrangement of individuals or classes according to any common physical or moral characteristics, except so far as these indicate community of origin.
XIV.