An authority on ethnology, an exponent of the cultural-historical ethnological schoo! of thought, and author of recognized volumes on the comparative study of primitive re-Ugions and religious psychology, Dr. Wilhelm Schmidt, Professor at the University of Vienna, arrived in Shanghai on Tuesday, May 14, in the President Grant, Dr. Schmidt will remain in Sha hai_for one day before proceeding to Peiping, where he is to deliver a series of lectures before students and faculty of the University of Peking Tt is believed that he will be prevailed upon to lecture here during October on his return, before going to Manila and southern points where further lectures have been arranged.
Recognized internationally as among. the foremost in his field, Dr. Schmidt holds honorary degrees' from. unlversities the world over, He is also Director of the Lateran Museum io Rome.
Questioned as to the common stock and origin of the Asiatic peoples by representative of the "North-China
would have to write a book Father Schmidt replied, to answer your question" In brief however, he added that Asia was the cradle of human progress, that the Peking Man was representative of the present inhabitants, and that the Chinese, Japanese, American Indians, and Eskimos undoubtedly sprung from the same stock.
The creation legend, he stated was quite common in the band running through the middle of the northern arear—from the Atlantic Ocean (USA) northern Asia, Russia, through and including Central Europe. In reply to a question, whether the Jequatorial zones possessed inhabitants who held to this belief, he said that the Simian Pygmies showed traces.
In conclusion, he voiced the opinion that American ethnologists, with minor exceptions, held to the Austro-[German theses of cultural-historical ethnology. He had conferred with American leaders in New York, Philadelphia, and Berkeley, California, "M.-C. Herald" Photo.
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