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[00:00.78]Lesson 44
[00:02.62]Patterns of culture
[00:09.88]What influences us from the moment of birth?
[00:15.46]Custom has not commonly been regarded as a subject of any great moment.
[00:20.81]The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation,
[00:26.82]but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behaviour at is most commonplace.
[00:33.35]As a matter of fact, it is the other way around.
[00:36.88]Traditional custom, taken the world over,
[00:39.96]is a mass of detailed behaviour more astonishing than what any one person can ever evolve in individual actions,
[00:48.53]no matter how aberrant.
[00:50.73]Yet that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter.
[00:54.70]The fact of first-rate importance is the predominant role that custom plays in experience and in belief,
[01:02.52]and the very great varieties it may manifest.
[01:07.28]No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes.
[01:11.45]He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
[01:18.15]Even in his philosophical probings he cannot go behind these stereotypes;
[01:23.66]his very concepts of the true and the false will still have reference to his particular traditional customs.
[01:31.50]John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in shaping the behaviour of the individual,