I am one of those who do not consider caste to be a harmful institution.

The priestly caste became a terrible power in Egypt and India, where the people, it would seem, were most susceptible to religious impressions, were most docile and most ignorant, and had in constant view the future welfare of their souls.

The landlord caste are the descendants of hereditary chiefs, of former revenue farmers and persons of importance to whom land grants were made in ancient times.

Caste is no longer an objection.

The caste of the different native gangs who worked on the twenty-seven viaducts built in Central Africa is a case in point: each group belonging to the same caste had to be provided with its own quarters, cooking utensils, and camp furniture, and dire were the consequences of a mix-up during one of the frequent moves made by the whole party.

[Footnote D: See any Résumé des Cahiers,even the meagre ones in Buchez and Roux, or Le Bas, or Chéruel.] Then came the failure of the Revolution in its direct purpose; and of this failure the serf-mastering caste was a main cause.

Caste is a symptom of arrested social development; and no community which tolerates it is free from the scourge of civil strife.

Caste was the logical expression in the social organisation of this state of high specialisation, and, indeed, what else is caste or any definite class distinctions but that?