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output of ability is quite 'as important as its 

 educational facilities. When this lesson has 

 been learnt there will be a demand for a new 

 anthropology, and its functions will be ancil- 

 lary to the higher statecraft. And if we are 

 asked what are the first stages to be taken in 

 dealing with these problems of national fitness, 

 we may answer : First, the actual awakening 

 of the nation to the consciousness that these 

 problems of its ability, strength, and fitness 

 are the great national problems ; and secondly, 

 in order that they may be answered wisely, 

 we need to take anthropometric stock of 

 where we stand and whither we are moving. 

 The first need in this direction is the institu- 

 tion of a national bureau to issue decennial 

 reports on the physical and mental condition 

 of the population, beginning with what is at 

 once feasible, the school, pauper, criminal, 

 and lunatic populations of the country.^ 



In the following two appendices abstracts 

 are given of recent lectures touching on 

 special points referred to in the more general 

 lecture reprinted in this volume. It is hoped 

 that these abstracts may indicate to the 

 reader the type of statistical work which has 



* Cf. the author's Prefatory Essay of 1902, 'The 

 Function of Science in the Modern State,' ' Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica,' Supplement, vol. xxxii. 



