War Is, We Have Been

The Purpose Of Anthropology Is To Make The World Safe For Human Differences.

The Heavier Our Bodies, The Higher Our Will, Our Spirit, Rises Above Them.' 'the Wearier We Are, The More Splendid The Training.

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.

If We Justify War, It Is Because All Peoples Always Justify The Traits Of Which They Find Themselves Possessed, Not Because War Will Bear An Objective Examination Of Its Merits

Culture Is Not A Biologically Transmitted Complex