#2,139

Three factors have corrupted, in America, the noble vigor of the Spanish language: the mental solecism of the non-Hispanic immigrant, the child-like eloquence of the black, and the shy, submissive melancholy of the Indian.

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#2,026

By means of the notion of “cultural evolution,” the democratic anthropologist tries to avoid questions of biology.

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#2,023

We are witnesses today to an exuberant proliferation of non-European crowds, but nowhere do any new, yellow, brown, or black civilizations arise.

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#1,656

Untouchable topics abound in democratic times. Race, illnesses, climate, end up being caustic substances there. Unspeakable there is anything that might imply that humanity is not causa sui.

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