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/^t/The most vivid example of inequality is the belief that abilities depend on race and that some races are superior to others. 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 imposes his rule by brute force. There are countries where the black man protests by setting fire to cities 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 favour of violence as if it were a legitimate solution, like any other. What is really frightening, what really fills one with despair, is the realisation 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 hostile instincts remain basically unchanged.