There are other special features of the caste system which have their evil effects and which militate against Democracy. One such special feature of the caste system lies in its being accompanied by what is called "graded inequality". Castes are not equal in their status. They are standing one above another. They are jealous of one another. It is an ascending and descending scale of contempt. This feature of the caste system has most pernicious consequences. It destroys willing and helpful co-operation.
Caste and class differ in the fact that in the class there is no complete isolation as there is in the caste system. This is the second evil effect in the caste system accompanied by inequality. This manifests itself in the fact that the stimulus and response between two castes is only one-sided. The higher caste act in one recognized way and the lower caste must respond in established way. It means that when there is no equitable opportunity to receive the stimulus from and to return the response from different caste, the result is that the influence which educates some into masters, educates others into slaves. The experience of each party loses its meaning when the free interchange of varying modes of life experience is arrested. It results into a separation of society, into a privileged and a subject class. Such a separation prevents endosmosis.
There is the third characteristic of the caste system which depicts the evils thereof which cuts at the very roots of democracy. It is that one caste is bound to one occupation. Society is no doubt stably organized when each individual is doing that for which he has aptitude by nature in such a way as to be useful to others; and that it is the business of society to discover these aptitudes and progressively to train them for social use. But there is in a man an indefinite pluralities of capacities and activities which may characterize an individual. Stratification is stunting of the growth of the individual and deliberate stunting is deliberate denial of democracy.