It Is My Necessary Breath

No One Culture Has Ever Developed All Human Potentialities; It Has Always Selected Certain Capacities, Mental And Emotional And Moral, And Stifled Others. Each Culture Is A System Of Values Which May Well Complement The Values In Another.

. . . 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.

... 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.

... With Every Asiatic Country Where We Operate In Cooperation With The Existing Culture, The Need For Intelligent Understanding Of That Country And Its Ways Of Life Will Be Crucial. These Nations Will Very Likely Not Respond To Appeals With Which We Are Familiar, And Not Value Rewards Which Seem To Us Irresistible. The Danger--and It Would Be Fatal To World Peace--is That In Our Ignorance Of Their Cultural Values We Shall Meet In Head-on Collision And Incontinently Fall Back On The Old Pattern Of Imposing Our Own Values By Force.

Society In Its Full Sense ... Is Never An Entity Separable From The Individuals Who Compose It. No Individual Can Arrive Even At The Threshold Of His Potentialities Without A Culture In Which He Participates. Conversely, No Civilization Has In It Any Element Which In The Last Analysis Is Not The Contribution Of An Individual.