Now-a-days, however, we have mostly got over the first shock to our family pride.
We are all Darwinians in a passive kind of way.

But we need to darwinize actively.

In the sciences that have to do with plants, and with the rest of the animals besides man, naturalists have been so active in their darwinizing that the pre-Darwinian stuff is once for all laid by on the shelf.

When man, however, engages on the subject of his noble self, the tendency still is to say: We accept Darwinism so long as it is not allowed to count, so long as we may go on believing the same old stuff in the same old way.
How do we anthropologists propose to combat this tendency?
By working away at our subject, and persuading people to have a look at our results.
Once people take up anthropology, they may be trusted not to drop it again.

It is like learning to sleep with your window open.