LIPS, JULIUS. The Savage Hits Back. Pp. xxxi, 254. New Haven: Yale Uni versity Press, 1937. $5.00
| Date | 01 March 1938 |
| Author | Edwin M. Loeb |
| Published date | 01 March 1938 |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271623819600169 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
263
derlying
European
imperialism
and
the
re-
actions
of
the
subject
groups
to
the
rule
of
their
masters.
How
well
he
has
car-
ried
out
the
limitations,
which
he
imposed
upon
himself,
of
being
brief
(4QO
pages),
of
thinking
French,
and
of
writing
French,
a
study
of
this
volume
will
reveal.
Indeed,
an
Anglo-Saxon
reader,
unused
to
the
well
known
exPlication
of
the
French
lecture
style,
may
find
the
book
a
little
wearisome
with
its
excessive
number
of
heads
and
sub-
heads
and
its
frequent
elaboration
of
the
obvious.
On
the
other
hand,
the
facts
are
presented
with
remarkable
clarity
and
are
summed
up
with
a
judge-like
absence
of
bias.
As
in
the
case
of
the
former
volume,
the
author
can
boast
that
he
has
no
&dquo;mes-
sage,&dquo;
and
that
the
reader
cannot
ascer-
tain
from
this
volume
what
position
he
takes
upon
the
issues
involved.
The
volume
deals
with
the
three
phases
which
have
characterized,
and
still
charac-
terize,
the
thinking
of
the
great
colonizing
powers
with
regard
to
their
possessions.
First
we
have
the
stage
of
domination,
when
the
colony
is
regarded
as
existing
pri-
marily,
if
not
solely,
for
the
benefit
of
the
controlling
power.
Then
follows
the
pe-
riod of
association,
when
as
a
result
of
the
political
and
social
education
of
both
groups
the
subject
peoples
are
gradually
al-
lowed
an
increasing
share
in
the
manage-
ment
of their
affairs.
Finally,
we
have
the
period
of
libera.tion,
when
the
dominant
group
through
further
education
and
the
growth
of
democratic
ideals,
coupled
with
the
spread
of
the
spirit
of
autonomy
on
the
part
of
the
dependent
people,
becomes
con-
vinced
that
it is
to
its
advantage
to
give
more
or
less
complete
freedom
to
the
colo-
nists.
How
this
evolution
of
the
thinking
of
imperialism
has
taken
place,
and
the
part
played
therein
by
education,
missions,
philanthropic
bodies,
the
press,
trade
inter-
ests,
and
the
like,
are
clearly
brought
out
in
this
volume
with
a
wealth
of
erudition
and
historical
documentation.
Throughout
an
attempt
is
made
to
esti-
mate
the
social
psychology
underlying
this
evolution.
Starting
with
the
premise
that
societies
and
empires
are
moral
beings,
&dquo;or-
ganismes
d’id6es,&dquo;
and
that
colonial
phe-
nomena
are
not
only
factual
and
material
but
also
spiritual,
Professor
Maunier
deals
admirably
with
what,
following
John
Stuart
Mill,
he
calls
the
ethology
or
politi-
cal
thinking
of
the
three
groups
concerned,
the
dominant
powers,
the
subject
peoples,
and
the
spectators.
By
&dquo;spectators&dquo;
he
means
world
opinion,
whose
influence,
due
to
the
ease
of
communication
and
the
ex-
istence
of
such
sounding
boards
as
the
League
of
Nations,
has
become
increasingly
important.
Particularly
illuminating
is
his
analysis
of
the
motives
and
the
effects
of
what
he
calls
&dquo;spiritual
imperialism.&dquo;
While
there
is
abundant
evidence
that
the
author
has
had
contact
with
indigenous
people
whose
thinking
has
been
what,
for
want
of
a
better
word,
we
may
call
&dquo;west-
ernized,&dquo;
one
sees
little
evidence
of
any
real
understanding
of
&dquo;primitive
mental-
ity,&dquo;
to
use
another
convenient
but
dan-
gerous
phrase.
He
seems
content
to
ac-
cept
the
viewpoint
of
Levi-Bruhl
that
primitive
man
is
nonlogical
or
prelogical
in
his
thinking,
whereas
it
is
much
more
probable
that
he
thinks
much
as
we
do.
It
is
also
strange
that
the
author
does
not
lay
greater
stress
on
the
widespread
inferi-
ority
complex
among
dominated
peoples,
which
would
help
to
explain
the
spread
of
autonomism.
In
a
work
of
this
comprehensiveness
there
are,
of
course,
bound
to
be
some
slips
and
omissions.
Tuskegee
is
not
a
Negro
university,
but
an
industrial,
agricultural,
and
normal
school
(p.
41~).
The
imperial-
ism
of
the
Kipling
era
(p.
174)
no
longer
motivates
British
colonial
policy.
No
mention
is
made
of
Lugard
and
his
&dquo;dual
mandate
theory&dquo;
which
is
the
accepted
pol-
icy
of
Great
Britain
today.
Such
a
gen-
eralization
as
that
the
Asiatic
longs
for
a
return
to
his
past
may
be
true
of
Gandhi,
but
it
is
certainly
not
true
of
present-day
China
and
Japan
(p.
374).
But
these
are
minor
blemishes
on
a
work
of
paramount
importance
to
the
student
of
imperialism
and
colonial
policies.
CHARLES
T.
LORAM
Yale
University
LIPS,
JULIUS.
The
Savage
Hits
Back.
Pp.
xxxi,
254.
New
Haven:
Yale
Uni-
versity
Press,
1937.
$5.00.
In
an
introduction
to
the
present
vol-
ume,
Professor
Bronislaw
Malinowski
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