o* Anthropology: Social 



hut they arc certainly not instructed in the rearing or care 

 of their children, or in ways to lessen the terrible infant 

 mortality. The hoys merely learn how to he 1400. 1 . . . savages, 

 to maintain fidelity to the narrow clan or even the tribe, hut 

 to regard all human beings outside that tribe or clan as being 

 beyond the pale of common humanity. I admit that a heavily 



413. "SANDE" OR "BOM" GIRLS (OF THE INITIATION SCHOOL), WESTERN LIBERIA 



clothed Negro with a great deal ot cheap scripture quotation on 

 his lips is rather a repulsive person, or that a Negress dressed 

 in a caricature of last year's style in London or Paris is not 

 so comely an object as the same Negress retaining the modest, 

 downcast airs of savage Africa, merely decked in slight drapery. 

 But the modest, downcast looks conceal no greater purity of 



