Download or read book Varia Africana I (Classic Reprint) written by Oric Bates and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Varia Africana I The scientific study of the origins of primitive society and of the ruder cultures has in the past fifty years come to assume a high importance. Already the slowly gathered results of the work of the archaeologist, the ethnographer, and the physical anthropologist are in various ways, direct as well as indirect, profoundly influencing popular opinion. Sometimes consciously, more often unconsciously, our views on many Vital questions are being modified by conclusions reached by specialists in these fields of research. Their discoveries and conclusions are such as cannot today be ignored by any of the men on whose activities intellectual and moral progress depends. This is especially true of the social workers, the economists, the historians, and those merchants, missionaries, and administrators who are confronted with the problems which invariably arise as soon as civilized nations are brought into contact with savage or barbarous races. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.