The Adequate Study Of Culture, Our Own

Culture, With Its Processes And Functions, Is A Subject Upon Which We Need All The Enlightenment We Can Achieve, And There Is No Direction In Which We Can Seek With Greater Reward Than In The Facts Of Pre-literate Societies.

Western Civilization, Because Of Fortuitous Historical Circumstances, Has Spread Itself More Widely Than Any Other Local Group That Has So Far Been Known.

... Oh, I Long To Prove Myself By Writing! The Best Seems To Die In Me When I Give It Up. It Is The Self I Love--not This Efficient, Philanthropic Self.

The Life History Of The Individual Is First And Foremost An Accommodation To The Patterns And Standards Traditionally Handed Down In His Community

. . . Work Even When I'm Satisfied With It Is Never My Child I Love Nor My Servant I've Brought To Heel. It's Always Busy Work I Do With My Left Hand, And Part Of Me Watches Grudging The Wastes Of A Lifetime.