Anthropology

Hitherto,the trouble with anthropologists has been to see the wood for thetrees.Evenwhilst attending mainly to the peoples of rude culture, they haveheaped together facts enough to bewilder both themselves and theirreaders. The time has come to do somesorting; or rather the sorting is doing itself. All manner of groupsof special students, interested in some. particular side of humanhistory. It ought not to be impossible for an intelligent white manto enter sympathetically into the mental outlook of the native manof affairs, the more or less practical and hardheaded legislator andstatesman, if only complete confidence could be established betweenthe two. That there are men of outstandingindividuality who help to make political history even amongst therudest peoples is, moreover, hardly to be doubted.