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"
My
friends
,
"
he
said
,
"
I
think
I
may
claim
to
be
the
oldest
among
you
.
In
nearly
seventy
years
I
have
learned
,
and
had
to
unlearn
,
many
things
—
though
not
nearly
so
many
as
I
could
have
wished
.
But
if
,
in
the
course
of
a
long
study
of
man
’
s
institutions
,
one
thing
has
struck
me
more
than
their
stubbornness
,
it
is
their
variety
.
"
Well
,
indeed
do
the
French
say
autres
temps
,
autres
maurs
.
We
must
all
see
,
if
we
pause
to
think
,
that
one
kind
of
community
’
s
virtue
may
well
be
another
kind
of
community
’
s
crime
;
that
what
is
frowned
upon
here
may
be
considered
laudable
elsewhere
;
that
customs
condemned
in
one
century
are
condoned
in
another
.
And
we
must
also
see
that
in
each
community
and
each
period
there
is
a
widespread
belief
in
the
moral
rightness
of
its
own
customs
.
"
Now
,
clearly
,
since
many
of
these
beliefs
conflict
,
they
cannot
all
be
‘
right
’
in
an
absolute
sense
.
The
most
judgment
one
can
pass
on
them
—
if
one
has
to
pass
judgments
at
all
is
to
say
that
they
have
at
some
period
been
‘
right
’
for
those
communities
that
bold
them
.
It
may
be
that
they
still
are
,
but
it
frequently
is
found
that
they
are
not
,
and
that
the
communities
who
continue
to
follow
them
blindly
without
heed
to
changed
circumstances
do
so
to
their
own
disadvantage
—
perhaps
to
their
ultimate
destruction
.
"
The
audience
did
not
perceive
where
this
introduction
might
be
leading
.
It
fidgeted
.
Most
of
it
was
accustomed
,
when
it
encountered
this
kind
of
thing
,
to
turn
the
radio
off
at
once
.
Now
it
felt
tapped
.
The
speaker
decided
to
make
himself
clearer
.
"
Thus
,
"
he
continued
,
"
you
would
not
expect
to
find
the
same
manners
,
customs
,
and
forms
in
a
penurious
Indian
village
living
on
the
edge
of
starvation
as
you
would
in
,
say
.
Mayfair
.
Similarly
,
the
people
in
a
warm
country
,
where
life
is
easy
,
are
going
to
differ
quite
a
deal
from
the
people
of
an
overcrowded
,
hard
-
working
country
as
to
the
nature
of
the
principle
virtues
.
In
other
words
,
different
environments
set
different
standards
.
"
I
point
this
out
to
you
because
the
world
we
knew
is
gone
—
finished
.
"
The
conditions
which
framed
and
taught
us
our
standards
have
gone
with
it
.
Our
needs
are
now
different
,
and
our
aims
must
be
different
.
If
you
want
an
example
.
I
would
point
out
to
you
that
we
have
all
spent
the
day
indulging
with
perfectly
easy
consciences
in
what
two
days
ago
would
have
been
housebreaking
and
theft
.
With
the
old
pattern
broken
,
we
have
now
to
find
out
what
mode
of
life
is
best
suited
to
the
new
.
We
have
not
simply
to
start
building
again
;
we
have
to
start
thinking
again
—
which
is
much
more
difficult
,
and
far
more
distasteful
.
"
Man
remains
physically
adaptable
to
a
remarkable
degree
.
But
it
is
the
custom
of
each
community
to
form
the
minds
of
its
young
in
a
mold
,
introducing
a
binding
agent
of
prejudice
.
The
result
is
a
remarkably
tough
substance
capable
of
withstanding
successfully
even
the
pressure
of
many
innate
tendencies
and
instincts
.
In
this
way
it
has
been
possible
to
produce
a
man
who
against
all
his
basic
sense
of
self
-
preservation
will
voluntarily
risk
death
for
an
ideal
—
but
also
in
this
way
is
produced
the
dolt
who
is
sure
of
everything
and
knows
what
is
‘
right
.
’
