Faith Is The Virtue Of

Racism Is The Dogma That One Ethnic Group Is Condemned By Nature To Congenital Inferiority And Another Group Is Destined To Congenital Superiority.

What Really Binds Men Together Is Their Culture, The Ideas And The Standards They Have In Common.

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.

An Observer Will See The Bizarre Developments Of Behavior Only In Alien Cultures, Not His Own. Nevertheless This Is Obviously A Local And Temporary Bias. There Is No Reason To Suppose That Any One Culture Has Seized Upon An Eternal Sanity And Will Stand In History As A Solitary Solution Of The Human Problem. Even The Next Generation Knows Better. Our Only Scientific Course Is To Consider Our Own Culture, So Far As We Are Able, As One Example Among Innumerable Others Of The Variant Configurations Of Human Culture.

War Is, We Have Been Forced To Admit, Even In The Face Of Its Huge Place In Our Civilization, An Asocial Trait.