[72] It has not commonly been noted, though it will scarcely be questioned, that fighting capacity and the propensity to fight have rarely, if ever, been successful in the struggle between races and peoples when brought into competition with a diligent growing of crops and children, if success be counted in terms of race survival. [73] It is apparently an open question whether these spiritual traits are properly to be ascribed to the dolicho-blond as traits of that type taken by itself, rather than traits characteristic of the hybrid offspring of the blond stock crossed on one or other of the racial stocks associated with it in the populations of Europe. The evidence at large seems rather to bear out the view that any hybrid population is likely to be endowed with an exceptional degree of that restlessness and discontent that go to make up what is spoken of as a “spirit of enterprise” in the race. [74] As, e. g., the inhabitants of many Polynesian islands at the time of their discovery. See, also, Codrington, _The Melanesians_. [75] Not an unusual state of things among the Melanesians and Micronesians, and in a degree among the Australians. [76] See note, p. 120. [77] E. g., some Australian natives and some of the lower Malay cultures. [78] E. g., the Pueblo and the Eskimo. [79] Indeed, such as very suggestively to recall the ritual objects and observances of the Pueblo Indians. [80] For an extreme case of this among living communities, see Skeat and Blagden, _Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula_, vol. i, pp. 242–250, where the generalisation is set down (p. 248) that “the rudimentary stage of culture through which these tribes have passed, and in some cases are still passing, may perhaps be more accurately described as a wood and bone age than as an age of stone,” in as much as the evidence goes to show that before they began to get metals from the Malays their only implements of a more durable material were “the anvil and hammer (unwrought) ..., the whetstone, chips or flakes used as knives, and cooking stones.” From the different character of their environment this recourse to wood and bone could scarcely have been carried to such an extreme by the savages of the Baltic region. [81] Cf. Pumpelly, _Explorations in Turkestan_. [82] A casual visit to the Scandinavian museums will scarcely convey this impression. To meet the prepossessions of the public, and perhaps of the experts, the weapons are made much of in the showcases, as is to be expected; but they are relatively scarce in the store-rooms, where the tools on the other hand are rather to be estimated by the cubic yard than counted by the piece. [83] Seen, e. g., in the observance and sanction of tabu in many of the lower cultures.