In an autobiographical sketch, Boas wrote: The background of my early thinking was a German home in which the ideals of the revolution of 1848 were a living force.
在一篇簡短自傳中，鮑亞士寫道： 我早年的思想背景來自一個德國家庭，其中1848年革命的理想是一股活躍動力。