Mental Characteristics Quotes by Franz Boas

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• If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
• Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for…
• The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of…
• No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have…
• Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with…
• There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality…
• It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according…
• Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it…
• It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of…
• My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom
• I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the…
• My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

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