Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

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

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

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.

... 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.

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.