Lewin tackled minority issues, ethnic tensions, and race relations head on. In doing so, of course, he used the language of his times. I ask the reader to bear with the racial designations and the patriarchal language in these original quotes here and elsewhere in the text.

From a strictly scientific perspective the words shouldn’t matter (although I recognize that there are connotations with certain words, and hence I wouldn’t touch certain words with a ten-foot pole). It can and will be argued here that all racial designations are inaccurate and come from dubious sources. The same holds for sexism in language. Identifying with humanity, and also with ethnic and cultural heritages makes much more ...

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