"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."

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"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."

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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."

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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."

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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

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"It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all."

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"To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name."

Vachel Lindsay, American Poet

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"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

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"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."

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"For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race."

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"The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind."

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"America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton."

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"America is the last great goal of these migrations."

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"The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals."

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"Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races."

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"Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly."

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