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

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.

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

There 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.

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

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