Toying With Voluntary Segregation

"Whenever a difference of race, colour, religion, or breeding is not so overcome in the rush of common work or duty as to pass unnoticed or even unknown, if an attempt is made to ignore it in comradeship, society, marriage, or place of residence is instantly recognised, and an irresistible impulse causes the groups to segregate. This is set down by democratic doctrinaires to prejudice or snobbery. They do not perceive that contrasts of character and taste can be ignored when people are engaged in some instrumental action, to which moral diversity is irrelevant; but as soon as the labour is over, and the liberal life of play, art, affection, and worship begins, both sides equally require moral comprehension and are equally chilled, bored, and rendered sterile when comprehension is absent...Vital liberty differentiates. Only vacant freedom leaves all in the same anonymous crowd." - George Santayana

MFH of FL 9:45AM April 22, 2010