Franz Boas :German-American anthropologist (1858–1942)
this is a publication excerpt:"HE fight that's now devastating Europe has been defined as an unavoidable warfare of races, as an final result of the innate hostility among Teutonic, Slav, and Latin peoples, that could by no means be triumph over by means of argument and cause, since it is because of deep-seated "racial instinct." If this have been so, we'd melancholy of the way forward for mankind; for past this clash could come up others eternally, as wider and nearer overseas sex develops and brings extra emphatically into cognizance racial variations like these among Latin-American and Anglo-American, East Indian and ecu, Mongol or Malay and ecu. If this view have been right, the so-called "racial intuition" might perpetuate wars of extermination till one race by myself survived..."
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