Excerpt from The Future of Man: The Bbc Reith Lectures, 1959 No one need be ashamed of his Shortcomings as a 'hu man biologist'. A human biologist must be demographer, geneticist, anthropologist, historian, psychologist and sociologist all in one, and much else besides; he must also be a fairly reasonable sort of human being; and no one can be all of these things. What is written here is therefore the product of a certain Combination of knowledge and ignorance; it is also the product of much careful and anxious thought. I ...
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Excerpt from The Future of Man: The Bbc Reith Lectures, 1959 No one need be ashamed of his Shortcomings as a 'hu man biologist'. A human biologist must be demographer, geneticist, anthropologist, historian, psychologist and sociologist all in one, and much else besides; he must also be a fairly reasonable sort of human being; and no one can be all of these things. What is written here is therefore the product of a certain Combination of knowledge and ignorance; it is also the product of much careful and anxious thought. I Can now see a good deal wrong with the Style/of these lectures they were too closely reasoned, and often made unfair demands on the listener's attention but I Still feel I was quite right in attempting to expound the processes of reasoning rather than the finished pro ducts of thought. Nearly all that follows is unfinished thinking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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