So he set himself to examine his own mind and the mind of the world
about him for prejudice, for hampering follies, disguised
disloyalties and mischievous distrusts, and the great bulk of the
papers that White struggled with at Westhaven Street were devoted to
various aspects of this search for "Prejudice." It seemed to White
to be at once the most magnificent and the most preposterous of
enterprises. It was indeed no less than an enquiry into all the
preventable sources of human failure and disorder. . . . And it was
all too manifest to White also that the last place in which Benham
was capable of detecting a prejudice was at the back of his own
head.
Under this Fourth Limitation he put the most remarkable array of
influences, race-hatred, national suspicion, the evil side of
patriotism, religious and social intolerance, every social
consequence of muddle headedness, every dividing force indeed except
the purely personal dissensions between man and man. And he
developed a metaphysical interpretation of these troubles. "No
doubt," he wrote in one place, "much of the evil between different
kinds of men is due to uncultivated feeling, to natural bad feeling,
but far more is it due to bad thinking.
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