1. Anthropology was by definiton impossible as long as these distinctions held sway over people´s minds. 只要这些差别之点在人的思想上占据统治地位时,人灶学,按其定义,是不可能存在的。
2. Anthropology was by definition impossible, as long as these distinctions between ourselves and the primitive, ourselves and the barbarian, ourselves and the pagan, held sway over people´s minds. 只要我们同原始人,我们同野蛮人,我们同异教徒之间存有的区别在人的思想中占主工导地位,那么人类学按其定义来说就无法存在。