ABSTRACT
History, we are often warned, is a fickle jade. Morgan was by all accounts as robust and uncompromising an American of his day as could have been found anywhere in the United States. Yet his ideas and discoveries, revolutionary as they were for the science of man, suffered eclipse in his own country at a critical time. Like the proverbial prophet, his following was greater outside than within his native land at that time. Nevertheless, you might well ask what special claims a British anthropologist could have to merit the honor of giving the first of these lecture courses dedicated to his memory.
