Human Faculty as Determined by Race

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Human Faculty as Determined by Race: Address by Franz Boas, Vice President, Section H., Before the Section of Anthropology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, at the Brooklyn Meeting, August, 1894 We will next compare the physical and psychical characteristics of the various races with a View to the question of their mental ability. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.