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Our Attitude Toward Our Own Culture Has Recently Been Characterized By Two Qualities, Braggadocio And Petulance. Braggadocio - Empty Boasting Of American Power, American Virtue, American Know-how - Has Dominated Our Foreign Relations Now For Some Decades. Here At Home - Within The Family, So To Speak - Our Attitude To Our Culture Expresses A Superficially Different Spirit, The Spirit Of Petulance. Never Before, Perhaps, Has A Culture Been So Fragmented Into Groups, Each Full Of Its Own Virtue, Each Annoyed And Irritated At The Others.

Historians Will Not Fail To Note That A People Who Could Spend $300 Billion On Defense Refused To Spend A Tiny Fraction Of That Total To Keep Their Libraries Open In The Evening.

The Most Promising Words Ever Written On The Maps Of Human Knowledge Are Terra Incognita, Unknown Territory.

While The Easiest Way In Metaphysics Is To Condemn All Metaphysics As Nonsense, The Easiest Way In Morals Is To Elevate The Common Practice Of The Community Into A Moral Absolute.

In Fast-moving, Progress-conscious America, The Consumer Expects To Be Dizzied By Progress. If He Could Completely Understand Advertising Jargon He Would Be Badly Disappointed. The Half-intelligibility Which We Expect, Or Even Hope, To Find In The Latest Product Language Personally Reassures Each Of Us That Progress Is Being Made: That The Pace Exceeds Our Ability To Follow.