ABSTRACT
Anthropology has attained some practical utility. It has serviceable techniques for getting information necessary to diagnose and interpret human behavior. The anthropologist cannot be at once a scientist, expert framer of national policies, and infallible prophet. The greatest strength of anthropology rests in its asking some of the right questions rather than in supplying the answers. Anthropological knowledge needs to be fused with that of the other human sciences. The best anthropological position takes a middle ground between sentimentality and the Philistine type of "modernization". The development of a flourishing science of man will wait upon fuller public understanding of the need for anthropology and its kindred sciences and adequate support. The emphasis upon material things in American culture and the stupendous success of physical science have tended to draw the best brains into law, business, and natural science.
