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the ancestors of tl 8 t is foun<i in tin- 



ditY.-rences of culture which are economic I 

 between tin* cultm- tin- inod.-rn whit- 



man and that of the primitiv u snore funda- 



:il than the contrast between tin- im.-i.-nN and the 

 people with whom they came in contact. Ti.i- i- parti.-u- 

 larly in econoi: 1 industrial a.-tiviti.-. Tin- in- 



of primitive peoples of our times are < 



88 and '-nnniioiiB qunntity of th- 



iinportnl ly the \vl. .!*. The slow and 



laborinus in<lu-trial processes of primitiv jieoples can- 



! \v itli the power of pnxliiction of tlu- inarhim-s 

 of tin- whitrs. Moreov-r. primitiv.. triUs are swamped 

 hy tin* niiiiilMTs of tin- iininiirratinir r;i-r. \\hirli <? 

 them out of tii.-ir old haunts SO rapidly that th- 



irr.idiuil a^-imilation. In olil>n times there was 

 no sii'-li inmirnsr in.-.|u;i!it\ in nnnil>er8 as we observe 

 in many regions to-day.** "We con.-lu.li-. thm'fore, 

 that the conditions for assimilation in an-i.'iit 

 were inu.-li niorr favorahh* than in thos .'ountri.-- win-P- 

 in our tiim-s primitive people come in contact with 

 civilization. I -fore, we do not n< <1 to assume that 

 the an.-i.-nt i ins were more irift.-.i than oth.-r races 



which hnv< not become exposed to tin- influences of civ- 

 ili/ation until p-crnt tiin 



SUrn. i Ki:.\m\ua 



BOAS, P. Thr Mind of / N Man. 



DKNIKH * Race* of I/an. 



iiixtw. F II i (pits of Sociology, part iii. rhap* 

 (the theory of the prcaeot chapter will n< 



. IS. 



F - UfArofofrofrw^N-. tot II. pp. 390 rf Mf . 



