A．instincts B．supplied C．tedious D．implements
E．contemplate F．taken for granted G．violence H．regard
I．energy J．progress K．outrageous L．imposes
M．improvement N．acute O．strict
In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violence has so come to be
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as a means of solving differences that it is not even questioned. There are countries where the white man
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his 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
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—as if it were a legitimate solution, 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
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at all. We may wear collars and ties instead of war-paint, but our
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remain basically unchanged. The whole of the recorded history of the human race, that
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documentation of violence, has taught us absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that violence never solves a problem but makes it more
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. The sheer horror, the bloodshed and the suffering mean nothing. No solution ever comes to light when we dismally
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the smoking ruins and wonder what hits us.
The truly reasonable men who know where the solutions lie are finding it harder and harder to get a hearing. They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted by their own kind because they advocate such apparently
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things as law enforcement. If half the
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that goes into violent acts were put into good use, if our efforts were focused on cleaning up the slums and ghettos, on improving living standards and providing education and employment for all, we would not go a long way to arriving at a solution.