Theoretically Barrow was his equal, but it was distinctly distasteful to see him exhibit it.

He presently said: "I hope in all sincerity that what you have said is true, as regards the Americans, for doubts have crept into my mind several times.

It seemed that the equality must be ungenuine where the sign-names of castes were still in vogue; but those sign-names have certainly lost their offence and are wholly neutralized, nullified and harmless if they are the undisputed property of every individual in the nation.

I think I realize that caste does not exist and cannot exist except by common consent of the masses outside of its limits.

I thought caste created itself and perpetuated itself; but it seems quite true that it only creates itself, and is perpetuated by the people whom it despises, and who can dissolve it at any time by assuming its mere sign-names themselves." "It's what I think.