Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.

Quote by Herbert George

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The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that...

The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that...

Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the...

Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the...

Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is...

Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is...

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and...

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and...

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and...

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and...

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

The time when we could tolerate accounts presenting us the native as a distorted, childish...

The time when we could tolerate accounts presenting us the native as a distorted, childish...

The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isnt a...

The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isnt a...