He is taught consequently to be a one-sided person with his world values wrongly adjusted and his attitudes to life distinguished by bias and prejudice. The rudiments of the arts are taught him in order to enable him to function with the needed efficiency in a competitive setting and in his particular vocational environment. Some of the literature of the world is also brought to his attention. World citizenship is not emphasized. Fortunately, the tide of life in the youth of any nation can be trusted to swing the thought of the race into a better direction than the evocation of past glory, so-called, and the emphasizing of the things which should be left behind.
Education is the major agent in the world.
Civilization is the reaction of humanity to the purpose of any particular world period. In each age, some idea must be expressed in the current racial idealism. Yet there were highly sensitive races, composed of nations and groups who labored over the development of the feeling nature, consciously sometimes, but mostly unconsciously. Their attitude to the deity was equally sensitive, and their religious activities were mystical and devotional, devoid of any mental understanding. They were significantly emotional in reactions to beauty, to the terror evoked by divinity and to the emotional characteristics of God, to the sense of light and to wonder.