Anthropology and Modern Life.

For many years the distinguished professor of anthropology at Columbia University has represented scientific leadership in his field. It is therefore well to have from him a brief, well written statement on the scope of this subject in its relationship to other sciences. Problems of racial character, the study of human beings in groups, all of the basic sciences associated with medicine and with biology being utilized, are comprehended in the author's conception of anthropology. Thus, one of the most important sections deals with the interrelation of races and with antipathy between white and black and white and yellow peoples. Boas believes that racial antipathy can be broken down only if we succeed in creating among young children social groups that are not divided according to the principles of race, and which have principles of cohesion that weld the group into a whole. He believes that the interests of mankind