No One Has Ever Proved That A

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.

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.

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

Its [the Anthropological Method] Power To Make Us Understand The Roots From Which Our Civilization Has Sprung, That It Impresses Us With The Relative Value Of All Forms Of Culture, And Thus Serves As A Check To An Exaggerated Valuation Of The Standpoint Of Our Own Period, Which We Are Only Too Liable To Consider The Ultimate Goal Of Human Evolution, Thus Depriving Ourselves Of The Benefits To Be Gained From The Teachings Of Other Cultures And Hindering An Objective Criticism Of Our Own Work.

We All Know Scientists Who In Private Life Do Not Come Up To The Standard Of Truthfulness, But Who, Nevertheless, Would Not Consciously Falsify The Results Of Their Researches