The influence of breed, however, is less obvious, and we may still meet with persons so ill informed, and perhaps so prejudiced, as to deny it altogether.

The growth of our knowledge in this matter, by showing how subtle and penetrative is the influence of heredity, cannot fail to dispel this mischievous notion.

No sound civilization is possible except in a community which in the mass is not only well-nurtured but well-bred.

And in no part of life so much as in the sexual relationships is the influence of good breeding more decisive.

An instructive illustration may be gleaned from the minute and precise history of his early life furnished to me by a highly cultured Russian gentleman.