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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.
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Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for…
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The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of…
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No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have…
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Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with…
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There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality…
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It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according…
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Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it…
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It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of…
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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom
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I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the…
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My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma
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The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to…
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I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion…
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In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that…
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But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the…
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The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain,…
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In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their…
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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
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