Arcanum

●obscura:あいまいな
ARCANUM:Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura

●pulpit:説教壇
If one sits before different pulpits one is bound to hear different, and conflicting, tales of that Creation.

●fable:寓話
●fossil:化石
None of these fables sort well with what we are daily learning by our study of fossils and our observation of the natural world.

●diligent:勤勉な
●glean:拾い集める
A diligent application of the valuable data gleaned by other scientific researchers

●howl:わめく、吼える
●heretic:異端者
Men of Faith and men of Science alike will howl for my blood, condemning me as a heretic.

●dabbler:カモ、道楽半分に仕事をする人、二束のわらじを履く人、素人
Practitioners of the Mystic Arts will call me a dabbler and dismiss my theories with the same carelessness with which they treat all the products of Natural Philosophy.

●treatise:専門書、学術書、全書
●conjoin:結合させる
●paleontology:古生物学
●ethnology:民族学
In this treatise I will deal chiefly with what evidence the conjoined Sciences of Paleontology, Ethnology and modern Biology have been able to discover.

●torso:胴、胴体のみの彫像、不完全な作品
Minute peoples tend to have heads which are larger in proportion to the torso and limbs than one would see in a human subject.