War Is An Old, Old Plant On

The Psychological Consequences Of This Spread Of White Culture Have Been Out Of All Proportion To The Materialistic. This World-wide Cultural Diffusion Has Protected Us As Man Had Never Been Protected Before From Having To Take Seriously The Civilizations Of Other Peoples; It Has Given To Our Culture A Massive Universality That We Have Long Ceased To Account For Historically, And Which We Read Off Rather As Necessary And Inevitable.

Traditional Anglo-saxon Intolerance Is A Local And Temporal Culture Trait Like Any Other.

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.

War Is, We Have Been Forced To Admit, Even In The Face Of Its Huge Place In Our Civilization, An Asocial Trait.

If We Justify War, It Is Because All Peoples Always Justify The Traits Of Which They Find Themselves Possessed, Not Because War Will Bear An Objective Examination Of Its Merits