Anthropology and the Classics / Six Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Anthropology and the Classics, by Sir Arthur Evans, Andrew Lang, Gilbert Murray, F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons, Sir John Linton Myres, and W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler, Edited by R. R. (Robert Ranulph) Marett

SIX LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
ARTHUR J. EVANS ANDREW LANG  GILBERT MURRAY F. B. JEVONS  J. L. MYRES W.  WARDE FOWLER
EDITED BY
R. R. MARETT
SECRETARY TO THE COMMITTEE FOR ANTHROPOLOGY
OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS MCMVIII
HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK TORONTO AND MELBOURNE

Anthropology and the Humanities—on verbal grounds one might suppose them coextensive; yet in practice they divide the domain of human culture between them. The types of human culture are, in fact, reducible to two, a simpler and a more complex, or, as we are wont to say (valuing our own achievements, I doubt not, rightly), a lower and a higher. By established convention Anthropology occupies itself solely with culture of the simpler or lower kind. The Humanities, on the other hand—those humanizing studies that, for us at all events, have their parent source in the literatures of Greece and Rome—concentrate on whatever is most constitutive and characteristic of the higher life of society.