In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violence has so come to be taken for granted as a means of solving differences, that it is not even questioned. There are countries where the white man exposes,imposes,composes,disposeshis rule by brute force; there are countries where the black man protests by setting fire to cities and by looting and pillaging. Important people on both sides, who would in other respects appear to be reasonable men, get up and calmly argue in favor of violence as if it were a legitimate,feeble,questionable,doubtfulsolution, like any other. What is really frightening, what really fills you with despair, is the realization that when it comes to the crunch, we have made no actual progress at all. We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our instruction,instillation,instrument,instinctsremain basically unchanged,fluctuating,interchangeable,changeable. The whole of the recorded history of the human race, that tedious,educational,valuable,interestingdocumentation of violence has taught us absolutely nothing.