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ambition are permitted little outlet; and a meaningful
integration of a man’s experience on individual, personal
lines is not achieved. By contrast to the constriction at
the intellectual level, great freedom is allowed for at the
temperamental level, and a man is expected to live very
much in the ‘here and now,’ to be highly extroverted, and
to give very free expression to his feelings.
In a word, our notions of the “uninhibited” native ignore the
utter inhibition and suppression of his mental and personal life
which is unavoidable in a nonliterate world:
Whereas the Western child is early introduced to building
blocks, keys in locks, water taps, and a multiplicity of
items and events which constrain him to think in terms of
spatiotemporal relations and mechanical causation, the