22/42 And with that they had to be content, soap and water proving powerless to go further. Human Nature has worn its conventions for so long that its habit has grown on to it. In this nineteenth century it is impossible to say where the clothes of custom end and the natural man begins. Our virtues are taught to us as a branch of 'Deportment'; our vices are the recognised vices of our reign and set. Our tastes we acquire, with difficulty; our sentiments we learn by rote. |