Our Faith In The Present

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

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 Happiest Excitement In Life Is To Be Convinced That One Is Fighting For All One Is Worth On Behalf Of Some Clearly Seen And Deeply Felt Good, And Against Some Greatly Scorned Evil.

Man Is Not Committed In Detail By His Biological Constitution To Any Particular Variety Of Behavior.

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.