26 Introduction. 



aggressive purposes, as large combinations of skilled men in 

 the art of war, large associations for political purposes, and 

 societies, trades, and clubs without end, and all taking a 

 different standard for their progress and stability to the 

 societies of past ages. For in this era the press and publicity 

 is the received standard, and secrecy is going fast into the 

 shades of neglect and distrust. 



The end of such association and free intercourse must be 

 wide-spread civilisation, in which for all grades of mankind 

 an equal code of civil rights must be accorded, or the end 

 will be greater and more destructive wars than the world 

 has ever seen. Moreover, the difference of races and colour 

 has within it no sound ethnological basis for introducing 

 class distinction, in according rights to them upon a moral 

 basis, inferior to that pertaining to the white man. 



The contrast of Empires, between the ancient and modern 

 worlds, demand that equal rights be shown to men of all 

 colours. The African and Asiatic nations and tribes are 

 here briefly referred to. 



A comparison is made between the rise, spread and decay 

 of epidemic periods, and anthropological eras, with the view of 

 vindicating the course taken of introducing anthropology in 

 association with vital force, and showing that the moral 

 force or power may, through its destructive creative genius, 

 pervert and render useless to him the rich bounties which 

 vital force gives to man, if security to property goes not 

 hand in hand with judicious labour. 



