Antedating of "Ethnocentric"

[Sam Clements]

>From the Newark(OH.) Daily Advocate, February 9, 1892.  page ?, column 2:

      <Hear, hear!  "We have happily rid ourselves somewhat of the
ethnocentric prepossession which leads the Chinese to regard all other
peoples as outside barbarians;  but our perceptions are still obscured by
anthropocentric prejudice which prevents us from recognizing any psychical
analogy between the lower animals and ourselves.">>

Sam Clements

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> ethnocentric (OED 1900)
>
> 1899 _Amer. Anthropologist_ I. 433  As the perception of relation
> proceeds, the lowly egocentric system becomes ethnocentric and then
> democentric.
>
> Fred Shapiro
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