... Oh, I Long To Prove Myself

The Adequate Study Of Culture, Our Own And Those On The Opposite Side Of The Globe, Can Press On To Fulfillment Only As We Learn Today From The Humanities As Well As From The Scientists.

The Tough-minded ... Respect Difference. Their Goal Is A World Made Safe For Differences, Where The United States May Be American To The Hilt Without Threatening The Peace Of The World, And France May Be France, And Japan May Be Japan On The Same Conditions.

We Do Not See The Lens Through Which We Look.

... With Every Asiatic Country Where We Operate In Cooperation With The Existing Culture, The Need For Intelligent Understanding Of That Country And Its Ways Of Life Will Be Crucial. These Nations Will Very Likely Not Respond To Appeals With Which We Are Familiar, And Not Value Rewards Which Seem To Us Irresistible. The Danger--and It Would Be Fatal To World Peace--is That In Our Ignorance Of Their Cultural Values We Shall Meet In Head-on Collision And Incontinently Fall Back On The Old Pattern Of Imposing Our Own Values By Force.

We Grow In Time To Trust The Future For Our Answers.