The United States Should Not Jump Around

We Are, If Territory And Population Be Looked At Together, One Of The Great Countries Of The World - A Monster Country, One Might Say, Along With Others Such As China, India, The Recent Soviet Union, And Brazil. And There Is A Real Question As To Whether "bigness" In A Body Politic Is Not An Evil In Itself, Quite Aside From The Policies Pursued In Its Name.

A Foreign Policy Aimed At The Achievement Of Total Security Is The One Thing I Can Think Of That Is Entirely Capable Of Bringing This Country To A Point Where It Will Have No Security At All.

I Lived, Particularly In Childhood But With Lessening Intensity Right On To Middle Age, In A World That Was Peculiarly And Intimately My Own, Scarcely To Be Shared With Others Or Even Made Plausible To Them. I Habitually Read Special Meanings Into Things, Scenes And Places Qualities Of Wonder, Beauty, Promise, Or Horror For Which There Was No External Evidence Visible Or Plausible To Others. My World Was Peopled With Mysteries, Seductive Hints, Vague Menaces, "intimations Of Immortality.

Above All, It Behooves Us To Repress, And If Possible To Extinguish Once And For All, Our Inveterate Tendency To Judge Others By The Extent To Which They Contrive To Be Like Ourselves.

We Should Not Lose Ourselves In Vainglorious Sohemes For Changing Human Nature All Over The Planet. Rather, We Should Learn To View Ourselves With A Sense Of Proportion And Christian Humility Before The Enormous Complexity Of The World In Which It Has Been Given Us To Live.