600 THE ''nation" AS AN ELEMENT IN ANTHROPOLOGY. 



take in moldiug the body and the iiiiiid of man, his aspirations and 

 his ethical instincts. Already there are evident signs that at no very 

 distant future the human race will outgrow the limits of nationality 

 and will demand and find vsome guiding principle which will break 

 down the barriers which the nation, under present conditions, must 

 perforce erect around itself; which will do away with the latent hos- 

 tility which now requires the maintenance of enormous military estab- 

 lishments, and will successfully solve the problem of absolutely con- 

 serving the rights of the individual without impairing the efficiency of 

 the organization. 



It is easy to predict from what direction and under what impulses 

 this desirable result will be brought about. Every year is making it 

 clearer to the eye of the attentive observer; and never anywhere or at 

 any time has there been in the history of humanity a grander example 

 of its growth and potency than here, at this moment, we have spread 

 before our admiring gaze. It is by means of international action, 

 through associations and organizations formed for international i)ur 

 poses, that the highest and ultimate efficiency of government will be 

 reached; and then it will be discovered to be one with anthropology, 

 the science of man, the discovery of the laws which will lead him to 

 the utmost symmetrical development of all his faculties, to his maxi- 

 mum efficiency, to his highest happiness. 



