Clyde Kluckhohn - Mirror for man (1944)

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Moreover, the recipe for action that must be drawn from applied anthropology thus far is that of caution, of modest expectations as to what can be accomplished by planning, of humanity as to what may be predicted with present instruments for observing and conceptualizing, of preference for vis medicaturix naturae in many social situations.

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It is one thing to be able to make some useful predictions as to what is likely to happen... It is quite another thing to interfere, willfully to introduce new complications into an already tortuous social maze.

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Anthropology... has explored the gamut of human variability and can best answer the questions: what common ground is there between human beings of all tribes and nations? What differences exist? what is their source? how deep-going are they?

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Nonliterate societies represent the end results of many different experiments carried out by nature.

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