The Life History Of The Individual Is

The Arrogance Of Race Prejudice Is An Arrogance Which Defies What Is Scientifically Known Of Human Races.

Success And Failure In Our Own National Economy Will Hang Upon The Degree To Which We Are Able To Work With Races And Nations Whose Social Order And Whose Behavior And Attitudes Are Strange To Us.

The Psychological Consequences Of This Spread Of White Culture Have Been Out Of All Proportion To The Materialistic. This World-wide Cultural Diffusion Has Protected Us As Man Had Never Been Protected Before From Having To Take Seriously The Civilizations Of Other Peoples; It Has Given To Our Culture A Massive Universality That We Have Long Ceased To Account For Historically, And Which We Read Off Rather As Necessary And Inevitable.

The Life-history Of The Individual Is First And Foremost An Accommodation To The Patterns And Standards Traditionally Handed Down In His Community. From The Moment Of His Birth The Customs Into Which He Is Born Shape His Experience And Behavior. By The Time He Can Talk, He Is The Little Creature Of His Culture, And By The Time He Is Grown And Able To Take Part In Its Activities, Its Habits Are His Habits, Its Beliefs His Beliefs, Its Impossibilities His Impossibilities.

The Trouble With Life Isn't That There Is No Answer, It's That There Are So Many Answers.