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Anthropology is neither an old science like mathematics, astronomy and medicine, nor a modern one like genetics or electronics. The ancient Greeks were willing enough to assign man a place in the animal kingdom and some of them, notably Anaximander, had an inkling of evolution. But they were content to speculate and philosophize. In the early 19th Century anthropology as a science had made little headway. Species and varieties of plants and animals were considered changeless, and so were the races of man. The strange manlike bones found here & there in caves and quarries were thought to be the remains...
Generally credited with having done more to popularize the doctrine of Evolution than any other man, Huxley was not a scientist of Darwin's stature, was well content to dub himself "Darwin's bulldog." He had other claims to renown. In biology and paleontology he became one of the foremost groundbreakers...
...Communist Manifesto, gist of the gospel according to Marx, was their joint work, as was also the monumental Capital (finished by Engels after Marx's death). Both of them were gluttons for work, both of them believed the Revolution was just around the corner. But while Marx was content to spend his days in a library, spinning out his gigantic web of theory, Engels lived a more normally diversified life. He hunted with the English landowners he despised, just for the exercise. He rushed off to join the dud German revolution...
Contemptuous of marriage, he took his mistresses from the British proletariat, but married the second on her deathbed, just to please her. He knew he was second fiddle to Marx. and. according to Biographer Mayer, was quite content...
...President has had only a few years to settle in his own mind the content of a curriculum for modern minds (and those years distracted by what would appear the heaviest administrative and public duties). . . . Where are the clear and distinct ideas? . . . The aureole of unity characteristic, or supposed to be characteristic, of an earlier time has caught the President's fancy . . . and he is out to save the world from bewilderment upon borrowed material. ... Do we want clear and distinct ideas or clear and fruitful thinking? ... I can myself make nothing of this nostalgic preference save a diverting...