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Anthropology

CHAPTER III
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And, the more deeply you go into it, the more mixed we all of us turn out to be, when breed, and breed alone, is the subject of inquiry.

Yet race, in the only sense that the word has for an anthropologist, means inherited breed, and nothing more or less--inherited breed, and all that it covers, whether bodily or mental features.
For race, let it not be forgotten, presumably extends to mind as well as to body.

It is not merely skin-deep.

Contrast the stoical Red Indian with the vivacious Negro; or the phlegmatic Dutchman with the passionate Italian.

True, you say, but what about the influence of their various climates, or again of their different ideals of behaviour?
Quite so.


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