"The vilest tastes, the meanest bits of rascality, succeeded to my simple amusements, without even leaving the least idea behind.

I must, in spite of the worthiest education, have had a strong tendency to degenerate." The truth was that he had never had any education in its veritable sense, as the process, on its negative side, of counteracting the inborn.

There are two kinds, or perhaps we should more correctly say two degrees, of the constitution in which the reflective part is weak.

There are the men who live on sensation, but who do so lustily, with a certain fulness of blood and active energy of muscle.

There are others who do so passively, not searching for excitement, but acquiescing.