In this paper I desire to examine the concepts of race as they are used with reference to man. I shall endeavor to show that all those who continue to use the term “race” with reference to man, whether they be laymen or scientists, are “for sacred rites unfit.’’ Once more, I shall, as irritatingly as the sound of a clanging door heard in the distance in a wind that will not be shut out, raise the question as to whether, with reference to man, it would not be better if the term “race” were altogether abandoned.