Anthropology and the Humanities on verbal  grounds one might suppose them coextensive; yet in practice they divide the domain of human culture between them. The types of human culture are in fact reducible to two a simpler and a more complex or as we are wont to say (valuing our own achievements I doubt not  rightly) a lower and a higher. By established convention Anthropology occupies itself solely with culture of the simpler or lower kind. The Humanities on the other hand those humanizing studies that for us at all events have their parent source in the literatures of Greece and Rome concentrate on whatever is most constitutive and characteristic of the higher life of society.


What then of phenomena of transition? Are they to be suffered to form a no-man's-land a buffer-tract left purposely undeveloped lest forsooth the associates of barbarism should fall foul of the friends of civilization? Plainly in the cause of science a pacific penetration must be tolerated nay encouraged from both sides at once. Anthropology must cast forwards the Humanities  cast back. And there is not the slightest reason (unless prejudice be accounted reason) why conflict should arise between the interests thus led to intermingle.