Anthropology and the Classics

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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 Anthro pology 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.