We Do Not See The Lens Through

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.

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.

No Man Ever Looks At The World With Pristine Eyes. He Sees It Edited By A Definite Set Of Customs And Institutions And Ways Of Thinking.

The Life-history Of The Individual Is First And Foremost An Accommodation To The Patterns And Standards Traditionally Handed Down In His Community. From The Moment Of His Birth The Customs Into Which He Is Born Shape His Experience And Behavior. By The Time He Can Talk, He Is The Little Creature Of His Culture, And By The Time He Is Grown And Able To Take Part In Its Activities, Its Habits Are His Habits, Its Beliefs His Beliefs, Its Impossibilities His Impossibilities.

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.