Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be a pleasure for me if Anthropologist Hooton would relax and take a sea voyage. He has become ever so egotistical and intolerable of human failings. He has flowered beautifully in a Democracy-so much so that instead of correcting and constructing he has become like other Caesars- destructive...
...TIME'S review of Anthropologist Hooton's Apes, Men and Morons you quote his statement that sooner or later the public is going to call Science's bluff of omniscience. As the worthy professor is guilty of many positive statements which smack of omniscience, his bluff is herewith called...
There have been other observers of human behavior who hold opposite views from the learned professor. Says Anthropologist Robert Briffault, "stupidity is deliberately, laboriously, vigilantly cultivated by the established institutions of medievalism, barbarism, and savagery, whose survival in a world of multiplied intelligence requires that stupidity -a stupidity which is an artificial product. It is not innate, it is not inevitable." Said famed Political Economist John Stuart Mill, "of all the vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities...
Like thousands of other people, Professor Earnest Albert Hooton of Harvard University believes that the world of men is in bad shape. What distinguishes Anthropologist Hooton from most other calamity-howlers, however, is that his unflattering comments are backed up by a great store of information on the biological history and present condition of Homo sapiens, and that although he is a scientist he speaks not only with clarity but with...
Awed, TIME concedes that the weight of evidence lies with Anthropologist White; reaffirms its decision to use the form "spit-&-image" when occasion demands; drops this controversy...