APPENDIX I 



NATIONAL DETERIORATION 



THE future of anthropology undoubtedly lies 

 in the application of the fundamental princi- 

 ples of natural selection to the problem of 

 man. With as little doubt the method of 

 that future will be the reconstruction of demo- 

 graphy and anthropometry by aid of modern 

 statistical theory. Examined from this 

 standpoint, there is little distinction between 

 scientific sociology and the anthropology 

 of the future. The growth and decay of 

 human societies is a chapter for man, per- 

 haps, the most important chapter in evolu- 

 tionary anthropology. When we have fully 

 grasped the significance of the fact that man 

 is essentially gregarious, and not single, the 

 study of international anthropometric and 

 vital statistics* becomes one with the study 



* * Anthropometric ' and * vital ' are here used in their 

 broadest senses, and apply not only to statistics of the 

 relative fertility of nations and classes, of their relative 

 physique and endurance, but also to their general capacity 

 and intellectual power. 



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