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My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma
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Broken Heart
Dogma
Parent
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My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.
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Broken
Dogma
Shackles
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Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.
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Essence
Scientist
Service
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The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization
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Civilization
Corny
Disease
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The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
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Bane
Civilization
Disease
Distrust
Modern Civilization
Mutual
Nations
Among
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I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be
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May
Mind
Teaching
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I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.
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Slogans
Intended
Object
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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.
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Alive
Passion
Sake
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If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
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Equality
Emotional
Energetic
Imaginative
Intelligent
Mankind
Race
Select
Stable
Most
All Races
Were
Emotionally
Would
Present
Races
Third
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The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.
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Ancestry
Character
Determined
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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom
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Home
Emotional
Father
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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.
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Affection
Allowing
Influence
Parental
Ceremonial
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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.
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Diversity
Justice
People
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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
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Party
Strong
Years
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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.
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Antipathy
Barriers
France
Let Down
Years Ago
Hundred Years
Political Party
Sustain
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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.
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Diversity
Justice
Race
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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
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Development
Domain
Historical
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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.
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Men
Race
Thinking
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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.
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Development
Domain
Historical
Clearly
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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
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Research
Results
Scientist
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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.
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Nevertheless
Private Life
Truthfulness
Standard
Private
Scientists
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In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.
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Characteristics
Determined
Biological
Geographical
In Other Words
Mental
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This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.
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Reasonable
Activities
Actual
Apparently
Developed
Emphasized
Wallace
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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
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Anthropology
Currents
May
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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.
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Anthropology
Currents
Immortal
Present Time
Presenting
Time Work Hope
Due
Darwin
Work Hope Time
Helped
However
Imperfectly
Succeeded
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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
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Differentiation
Events
Tasks
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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.
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Causes
Differentiation
Establishment
Events
Human Life
Sequence
Life Human Human Life
Brought
Forms
Observed
Human
Inquire
Investigate
Led
Task
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Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered
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Migration
People
Study
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Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.
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History
Influence
Insufficient
Migration
Regions
Study
Surroundings
Considered
Came
Furthermore
Present
Passed
The History Of
Whom
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Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.
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Opportunity
Adaptation
Deviate
Impossible
Insistence
Looks
Path
Quiet
Slowness
Steadfast
Case
Exceeding
Opportunities
Powers
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We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes.
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Characteristics
Found
Groups
Individual
Physiological
Traits
Considered
Area
Interested
Classes
Discuss
Geographical
Mental
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Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.
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Ethical Standards
Good Man
Way
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Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been built up. The complexity of each phenomenon dawns on our minds, and makes us desirous of proceeding more cautiously. Heretofore we have seen the features common to all human thought
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Dawn
Development
Mind
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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.
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Civilization
Other Cultures
Teaching
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It 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.
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Character
Class
Race
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