ABSTRACT
Whatever the determinants of society may be it is man that matters, and Lee Dice, a geneticist,43 writing of the lessons be learnt from ‘primitive people to, said: ‘In a world in which our heads are spinning under the im pact of an overload of information, studies of primitive man provide, above all else, perspective. The chief alkali inspector in England, the man responsible for watching over pollution and its effects, in presenting his annual report for 1969, scorned the current concern of the ecologists. The increasing number of unemployed scientists and engineers may become almost as powerful a voice as that of the industrial workers. Diversity is rapidly vanishing. The uniform appearances of High Streets in every town in the British Isles testifies to this inbuilt urge of economically predatory firms to destroy diversity.
