Policy, however, including bad policy, does not come within the official cognizance of the anthropologist.
Yet it is legitimate for him to hope that, just as for many years already physiological science has indirectly subserved the art of medicine, so anthropological science may indirectly, though none the less effectively, subserve an art of political and religious healing in the days to come.
* * * * * The third and last part of this chapter will show how, under modern conditions of science and education, anthropology is to realize its programme.

Hitherto, the trouble with anthropologists has been to see the wood for the trees.

Even whilst attending mainly to the peoples of rude culture, they have heaped together facts enough to bewilder both themselves and their readers.

The time has come to do some sorting; or rather the sorting is doing itself.

All manner of groups of special students, interested in some particular side of human history, come now-a-days to the anthropologist, asking leave to borrow from his stock of facts the kind that they happen to want.