In some countries where racial prejudice is acute, violence has so come to be taken for (1) as a means of solving differences that it is not even questioned. There are countries where the white man (2) his rule by brute force; there are countries where the black man protests by (3) fire to cities and by looting and pillaging. Important people (4) both sides, who would in other respects appear to be reasonable men, get up and calmly argue (5) violences—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 (6) to the crunch, we have made no actual (7) at all. We may wear collars and ties instead of war- paint, but our instincts remain (8) unchanged. The whole of the (9) history of the human race, that tedious documentation of violence, has taught us absolutely nothing. We have still not learnt that violence never solves a problem but makes it more (10) . The sheer horror, the bloodshed and the suffering mean nothing. No solution ever (11) when we dismally. (12) the smoking ruins and wonder (13) hit us. The (14) reasonable men who know where the solutions (15) are finding it harder and harder to get a hearing. They are despised, mistrusted and even persecuted by their own (16) because they advocate such apparently outrageous things as law (17) . If half the (18) that goes into violent acts were put into good use, if our efforts were (19) on cleaning up the slums and ghettos, on improving living standards and providing education and employment for all, we would not go a long (20) to arriving at a solution.