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The Mere Fact Of Leaving Ultimate Social Control In The Hands Of The People Has Not Guaranteed That Men Will Be Able To Conduct Their Lives As Free Men. Those Societies Where Men Know They Are Free Are Often Democracies, But Sometimes They Have Strong Chiefs And Kings.they Have, However, One Common Characteristic: They Are All Alike In Making Certain Freedoms Common To All Citizens, And Inalienable.

We Must Accept All The Implications Of Our Human Inheritance, One Of The Most Important Of Which Is The Small Scope Of Biologically Transmitted Behavior, And The Enormous Role Of The Cultural Process Of The Transmission Of Tradition.

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.

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.

A Man's Indebtedness Is Not Virtue; His Repayment Is. Virtue Begins When He Dedicates Himself Actively To The Job Of Gratitude.