In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party
Franz BoasMy father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom
Franz BoasThere is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.
Franz BoasIt is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect the historical development of races from different standpoints; and that the results of the three classifications are not comparable, because the historical facts do not affect the three classes of phenomena equally. A consideration of all these classes of facts is needed when we endeavour to reconstruct the early history of the races of mankind.
Franz Boas