After providing a brief exposition of several of the more significant claims in 'The Heathen in His Blindness', this essay—almost more a Review Article— proffers some criticisms of those claims against the background of a shared desire to establish a 'science of cultures', and then suggests another account that may better serve to meet the goal of establishing that science.
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