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Edward Burnett Tylor

English anthropologist (1832–1917).

Born October 2nd, 1832 in Camberwell.

Died January 2nd, 1917 at 84 years old in Wellington.

Occupations
anthropologist, archaeologist, sociologist, writer

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel