REMEDIES 321 



civilisation, we may have reached a knowledge of 

 their history which will enable our rulers to take 

 that broad view of their responsibilities towards 

 the future which is so greatly assisted by a know- 

 ledge of the past? 



Having now considered certain ways in which 

 the science of anthropology can contribute to the 

 better government of subject peoples, I can pass 

 to the means by which this end may be attained. 

 Two chief lines of action suggest themselves. One 

 is the investigation of customs and beliefs by officers 

 especially appointed for the task who give their 

 whole time and energy to this employment. The 

 other line of action is to give a knowledge of 

 anthropology and its methods to those who are 

 themselves to carry on the work of government. 

 This may be done either before they enter on their 

 work, in periods of study-leave especially granted 

 for this purpose, or better still, by a combination 

 of both courses. The first line of action may take 

 two directions. Governments may appoint special 

 officers, government anthropologists or ethnolo- 

 gists, to give their whole time to scientific inquiry, 

 a plan adopted by the Government of Nigeria, or 

 they may undertake ethnographic surveys such as 

 have been carried out in recent years by the Govern- 

 ments of India and of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 

 The steps already taken in the latter direction have 

 given valuable results and much is to be hoped from 

 their continuance and extension. 



s. s. N. 21 



