The Trouble With Life Isn't That There

The Life History Of The Individual Is First And Foremost An Accommodation To The Patterns And Standards Traditionally Handed Down In His Community

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

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.

No One Culture Has Ever Developed All Human Potentialities; It Has Always Selected Certain Capacities, Mental And Emotional And Moral, And Stifled Others. Each Culture Is A System Of Values Which May Well Complement The Values In Another.

The Prime Lesson The Social Sciences Can Learn From The Natural Sciences Is Just This: That It Is Necessary To Press On To Find The Positive Conditions Under Which Desired Events Take Place, And That These Can Be Just As Scientifically Investigated As Can Instances Of Negative Correlation. This Problem Is Beyond Relativity.