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Many past and existing human societies have listed equality either as a fundamental aspiration or as an achievement. However, no such claim is free of detractors or critics, and the lack of demonstrable progress toward equality among humankind is truly remarkable. Even as these founding books of the Society are being written, the debate about whether it is possible for equality between individuals to exist at all, let alone whether or not it has ever …

…between individuals, and will identify our individuality as the characteristic that makes us valuable to each other, as well as all that we are. In this new light the record of failure in our search for equality in the past, and the lack of success in all our attempts to create it in human society have been due, at least in part, to a fundamental misunderstanding. Difference creates, justifies and unites human society, not equality.