INTRODUCTION id 
worn down by thousands of years of contact with more 
advanced peoples, that its peculiar qualities can only be 
surmised. 
Such, in its broad outlines and viewed retrospectively, 
has been the history of man and his institutions in the 
Philippines. In the pages that follow, the native 
civilization will be taken up more in detail according to 
its various aspects of economics, society, industry, 
thought, and knowledge, with an attempt to preserve 
under each head the guiding thread of sequence here 
sketched. 
