As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.

Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.

The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.

What really binds men together is their culture, the ideas and the standards they have in common.

In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.