On Race and Intelligence

[joshwriting]

Historical events appear to have been much more potent in leading races to civilisation than their faculty, and it follows that achievements of races do not warrant us to assume that one race is more highly gifted than the other.

Dr. Franz Boas, from:
Human Faculty as determined by Race, in the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1894.

Isn't it amazing how far we have come from there?

Comments

[siderea]

Awesome. Where are you getting these? Are you actually sitting there with a 103yo copy of the Proceedings of the AAAS?

[siderea]

^103^113

[joshwriting.livejournal.com]

That would be cool, indeed.

In this instance, I got the quote from Google Books, as with many of these other notes. In at least one case, I have the book from which I am writing, but it is easier to set the windows side by side than even to scan, let alone hold the book close enough to the computer!

(If I find my quick pen, it will be different, perhaps.)