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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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"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything."
"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."
"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
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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 immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time."
"My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom."
"The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science."
"We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes."
"In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past."
"It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life."
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