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.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

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.

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

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

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.