The present wave of immigration is characterized by an intellectual type of immigrant, in contrast to earlier times when the immigration represented predominantly the proletarian and lower middle classes. There resides a child within each of us and there is a longing for that psychological and symbolic extension of the mother image which we call our 'native land'. It takes time and spiritual work before one is able spontaneously and naturally to call a strange woman 'mother'. This is not a simile, it is a rather accurate, descriptive picture of the true state of the immigrant's psychology. The knowledge of the language is of outstanding importance. It is not enough to understand the words, for instance of the Gettysburg Address, but one must also spontaneously grasp the simplicity of it, its stirring humility, its spirit of mourning in the very glory of victory and its Christ-like universality of forgiveness.