MAN THE INDIVIDUAL By way of epilogue, a word about individuality, as displayed amongst peoples of the ruder type, will not be out of place.

There is a real danger lest the anthropologist should think that a scientific view of man is to be obtained by leaving out the human nature in him.

This comes from the over-anxiety of evolutionary history to arrive at general principles.

It is too ready to rule out the so-called "accident," forgetful of the fact that the whole theory of biological evolution may with some justice be described as "the happy accident theory." The man of high individuality, then, the exceptional man, the man of genius, be he man of thought, man of feeling, or man of action, is no accident that can be overlooked by history.

On the contrary, he is in no small part the history-maker; and, as such, should be treated with due respect by the history-compiler.