The Peoples Of The Earth

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

In A World That Holds Books And Babies And Canyon Trails, Why Should One Condemn Oneself To Live Day-in, Day-out With People One Does Not Like, And Sell Oneself To Chaperone And Correct Them?

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.

... It Is A Commonplace That Men Like War. For Peace, In Our Society, With The Feeling We Have Then That It Is Feeble-minded To Strive Except For One's Own Private Profit, Is A Lonely Thing And A Hazardous Business. Over And Over Men Have Proved That They Prefer The Hazards Of War With All Its Suffering. It Has Its Compensations.