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"The intellectual path to peace and human brotherhood
does not lie through any doctrinaire simplification of
historic cultures. In any case such a stipiffication-where
each culture would. lose its special savour--would bring
with it immeasurable impoverishment.
"It would be perilous for universal culture to become
kind of vast haberdashery counter, where dilettantes
could choose at will what seemed to them rarest, most
curious, most exotic. And there is another kind of
universalism whose victory would be no less fatal, one
in which the impossible came to pass and all became
interchangeable. There would be little profit in that
save for the slothful minds which had created it by
selecting everywhere the items they thought best calcu-
lated to satisfy the most people most quickly, and which
would necessarily be the crudest and the worst.
"Our heritage is marvelous in its diversity and we
must lose none of it. Nevertheless,-ve must make it the
possession of the whole world or, at the least, make
possible the interpenetration of cultures rather than
rejection or ignorance, sometimes even hatred-and scorn,
one of another. The first goal to be attained is sympathy,
and, after that, mutual enrichment; not a collection of
samples, nor a catalogue, nor an amalgam of mediocrities,
nor some sort of highest common factor. It is not, of
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