It is a great honor to be invited to speak as a Dai Ho Chun lecturer. I commend the selection committee’s boldness in extending the invitation to me, an eighty-two year old, who in his second childhood has the freedom of a child and so no longer feels an obligation to defer to political or any other kind of correctness. I hope that what I have to say will not upset anyone, for that cannot be further from my intention. What, then, is my intention? It is to put forward certain ideas which, though they now appear idealistic and quite impractical, may in time break the logjam of current pieties and lead us to new ways of addressing issues of cultural diversity, social justice, and individual human aspiration.