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...Ashley Montagu, 76, author and anthropologist, commenting on the ongoing debate between evolutionists and creationists: "Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof...
...women, too, naturally) are products of their environment is a fact we should all know by now, but Burt Avedon's Ah, Men! goes into pedantic detail on the subject, using a few of his own thoughts but mostly those of a rather notable group, including Ashley Montagu, Helen Gurley Brown, Sterling Hayden, Gore Vidal, Michael Korda, George Plimpton, et al., in this dry, humorless tome. There are chapters on Growing Up, Work, Goals and Sex, and the quotes run from the noble (Plimpton: "I went to an English school in New York where we were taught that the good...
...Samuel Montagu...
...discipline which profited from cross-cultural scope, and therefore more cosmopolitan perspectives. The American Anthropological Association has issued a statement describing homosexual and bisexual variations as common across many cultures, and well within human adaptations which are quite normal. Distinguished anthropologists who have persuasively articulated this position include Ashley Montagu and Margaret Mead, who has stated that she considers fear and condemnation of sexual variation to be a destructive malad-justment...
...treatment derived more than a half-century ago from the Orient and the Ottoman Empire. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British ambassador to Constantinople, was so impressed by the Turks' resistance to the small pox that she had her own children inoculated by the Turkish method and recommended the procedure to the royal family. King George I tried it first on six captives at Newgate Prison, then on eleven charity children. Since they survived, he had his granddaughters inoculated...