Robert Ranulph Marett - Anthropology (1911)

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None of Darwin's particular doctrines will necessarily endure the test of time and trial. Into the melting-pot must they go as often as any man of science deems it fitting. But Darwinism as the touch of nature that makes the whole world kin can hardly pass away.

Robert Ranulph Marett
Knowing by parts is science, knowing the whole as a whole is philosophy.

Robert Ranulph Marett
Anthropology is like travel. Everyone starts by thinking that there is nothing so perfect as his own parish. But let a man go aboard ship to visit foreign parts, and, when he returns home, he will cause that parish to wake up.

Robert Ranulph Marett
Anthropology is science in whatever way history is science; that it is not philosophy, though it must conform to its needs; and that it is not policy, though it may subserve its designs.

Robert Ranulph Marett
Imagination is the queen of those mental functions which meet in what we loosely term "thought"; and imagination is ever most active where, on the outer fringe of the mind's routine work, our inarticulate questionings radiate into the unknown.

Robert Ranulph Marett
In science the word is questionbegging; and the only sound rule in science is to beg as few philosophical questions as you possibly can.

Robert Ranulph Marett
Anthropology is the child of Darwin. Darwinism makes it possible. Reject the Darwinian point of view, and you must reject anthropology also.

Robert Ranulph Marett