Just As The Individual Is Not Alone

The Anthropologist Respects History, But He Does Not Accord It A Special Value. He Conceives It As A Study Complementary To His Own: One Of Them Unfurls The Range Of Human Societies In Time, The Other In Space.

Teaching And Research Are Not To Be Confused With Training For A Profession. Their Greatness And Their Misfortune Is That They Are A Refuge Or A Mission.

Anthropology Found Its Galileo In Rivers, Its Newton In Mauss.

These Facts Make The Creator Of Music A Being Like The Gods, And Make Music Itself The Supreme Mystery Of Human Knowledge.

Music Is A Language By Whose Means Messages Are Elaborated, That Such Messages Can Be Understood By The Many But Sent Out Only By Few, And That It Alone Among All The Languages Unites The Contradictory Character Of Being At Once Intelligible And Untranslatable - These Facts Make The Creator Of Music A Being Like The Gods.