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Those things which all men hold in common are beginning to outweigh enormously those things which separate them. That was not new to Goethe or Pascal or Burke; but in this sense it is astonishingly new to many of my own generation. My young friends in Cambridge have shown me over and over again that to them it is as simple as breathing that all societies are but variants of one another, that somehow all wars from now on are civil wars and the human adventure is much the same in all times and all places...
Broken Barriers. Along with this sense of man within man, science has added something more. "It has broken down the barriers between race and color, environment and cultural background . . . Those things which all men hold in common are beginning to outweigh enormously those things which separate them ... My young friends here in Cambridge have shown me over and over again that to them it is as simple as breathing that all societies are but variants of one another, that somehow all wars from now on are civil wars, and the human adventure is much the same in all times...
...Fisher adds: "Despite any. . . reservations that have prevented me from becoming a rah-rah boy of the Freudian school, I am quite sure that the contributions of Sigmund Freud toward the advancement of psychotherapy far outweigh the contributions of any other ten men I have...
Then, as now, skeptics insisted that the disadvantages of universal tutoring would outweigh the benefits. Morison again comments...
Considering all this, the practical benefits of Mrs. Day's gift seem to outweigh by far the disadvantages of a slight deviation from a strict and admirable principle. Had the gift been small, or the wording of the gift more blatantly discriminatory, or the Slight of the Medical School less desperate, there would have been an undeniable argument for refusing the bequest. As it is, none of the negative arguments can override the benefit that will come to all scholarship students in the Medical School...