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The present edition has changed a few minor wordings in the text, but no major argument. In two important matters (race as adaptive and the old Anaxagoras-Aristotle argument) on which my views have somewhat shifted focus, I have left the text unchanged, and in readily identifiable paragraphs in the appendix I have criticized my own earlier opinions from the viewpoint of new evidence. 

I think no one who values scientific reasoning either makes or expects an apology for such a change of mind.

Western culture is a strange paradox. For thousands of years we have proclaimed our primary or even exclusive allegiance to the spiritual world. 

But somehow, in the meantime, in spite of this protested loyalty whether backsliding, offhanded, unwitting, absent-minded, or perverse we have historically created the most unusual and complex material culture the world has ever seen. 

This result is hardly to be expected from our pretensions and suggests that we have had some confusion about our nature and our motivations, for we have surely shown less confusion about the nature of the physical world. At the same time, we have not been very clear about the nature of the realities we call "spiritual."

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Copyright 1954 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved Published 1954. First Phoenix Edition 1960. Seventh impres5ion 1967. Printed in the United States of America