The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isnt a story of conquest and rule. Enacting it doesnt give them power. Enacting it gives them lives that are satisfying and meaningful to them. This is…

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Its the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. Its seeing...

Its the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. Its seeing...

The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They...

The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They...

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 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.

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 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...

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...

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.

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...

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere...

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere...

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to...

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to...

Depression is the inability to construct a future

Depression is the inability to construct a future

If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of...

If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of...

;Depression; Depression please stay at my brain cell door,the tablets of moses are on their...

;Depression; Depression please stay at my brain cell door,the tablets of moses are on their...

Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts

Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts

It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps...

It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps...

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We...

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We...

I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want...

I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want...

Statistically 1 out of 5 females and 1 out of 8 males will go through...

Statistically 1 out of 5 females and 1 out of 8 males will go through...

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would...

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would...

Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it

Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it