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and pride as a nation.  We should here apply to science the Monroe doctrine of politics.  We should recognize and declare our own ability to do this work, our interest in it, and our intention to perform it, that we would contribute to the science of the world our own history of our prehistoric people.  If it should not be done by us or done insufficiently, it should not be because the matter was neglected or forgotten by either our government or our people, but because we decided it not to be worth the effort, and in this we must justify ourselves in the eyes of the world.  Other science may have demands.  Astronomy, chemistry, metallurgy, zoology, paleontology, may have certain demands for recognition, but the same duties rest upon other countries with equal weight as upon ours.  Our country is under no greater obligation in respect of these and similar sciences than are other countries of the world.  But in respect of the Prehistoric Anthropology of our own country it is different.