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

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

No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.

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

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 disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization