The aim of Dr. Tylor while devising this book was to give an introduction to Anthropology rather than a summary of all it teaches. Dr. Tylor belonged to that great period when Evolution was, so to speak, "in the air," when Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, Huxley, Lyell, Lubbock, and others, were broadening the outlook of nature and man. The book has amply fulfilled the hopes of the author, as is proved by the dozen odd subsequent editions and by the ...
