The Japanese Are, To The Highest Degree,

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.

The Japanese Are, To The Highest Degree, Both Aggressive And Unaggressive, Both Militaristic And Aesthetic, Both Insolent And Polite, Rigid And Adaptable, Submissive And Resentful Of Being Pushed Around, Loyal And Treacherous, Brave And Timid, Conservative And Hospitable To New Ways.

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.

... It Is A Commonplace That Men Like War. For Peace, In Our Society, With The Feeling We Have Then That It Is Feeble-minded To Strive Except For One's Own Private Profit, Is A Lonely Thing And A Hazardous Business. Over And Over Men Have Proved That They Prefer The Hazards Of War With All Its Suffering. It Has Its Compensations.

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.