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[00:01.46]Lesson 44
[00:03.43]Patterns of culture
[00:11.29]What influences us from the moment of birth?
[00:17.21]Custom has not commonly been regarded as a subject of any great moment.
[00:22.85]The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation,
[00:29.16]but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behaviour at is most commonplace.
[00:36.05]As a matter of fact, it is the other way around.
[00:40.37]Traditional custom, taken the world over, is a mass of detailed behaviour
[00:45.94]more astonishing than what any one person can ever evolve in individual actions, no matter how aberrant.
[00:54.40]Yet that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter.
[00:58.38]The fact of first-rate importance is the predominant role that custom plays in experience and in belief,
[01:05.67]and the very great varieties it may manifest.
[01:10.17]No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes.
[01:14.85]He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
[01:21.48]Even in his philosophical probings he cannot go behind these stereotypes;
[01:27.05]his very concepts of the true and the false will still have reference to his particular traditional customs.
[01:34.74]John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in shaping the behaviour of the individual,