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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.

I Have Always Used The World Of Make-believe With A Certain Desperation.

Most People Are Shaped To The Form Of Their Culture Because Of The Enormous Malleability Of Their Original Endowment. They Are Plastic To The Moulding Force Of The Society Into Which They Are Born. It Does Not Matter Whether, With The Northwest Coast, It Requires Delusions Of Self-reference, Or With Our Own Civilization The Amassing Of Possessions. In Any Case The Great Mass Of Individuals Take Quite Readily The Form That Is Presented To Them.

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.

Our National Experience In Americanizing Millions Of Europeans Whose Chief Wish Was To Become Americans Has Been A Heady Wine Which Has Made Us Believe, As Perhaps No Nation Before Us Has Ever Believed, That, Given The Slimmest Chance, All Peoples Will Pattern Themselves Upon Our Model.