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n beings； perpetuated2 by human beings； and in turn give human beings their stature as builders； thinkers； statesmen； artists； seers and prophets。 I believe that each of these great inventions—language； the family； the use of tools； government； science； art and philosophy—has the quality of so bining the potentialities of every human temperament； that each can be learned and perpetuated by any group of human beings； regardless of race； and regardless of the type of civilization within which their progenitors3 lived； so that a newborn infant from the most primitive tribe in New Guinea is as intrinsically capable of graduation from Harvard； writing a sonnet or inventing a new form of radar as an infant born on Beacon Hill。 But I believe also that once a child has been reared in New Guinea or Boston or Leningrad or Tibet； he embodies the culture within which he is reared； and differs from those who are reared elsewhere； so deeply； that only by understanding these differences can we reach an awareness which will give us a new control over our human destiny。
I believe that human nature is neither intrinsically good nor intrinsically evil； but individuals are born with different binations of innate potentialities； and that it will depend upon how they are reared—to trust and love and experiment and create； or to fear and hate and conform—what kind of human beings they can bee。 I believe that we have not even begun to tap human potentialities； and that by a continuing humble but persistent study of human behavior； we can learn consciously to create civilizations within which an increasing proportion of human beings will realize more of what they have it in them to be。
I believe that human life is given meaning through the relationship which the individual’s consc
