The Inequality of Nature

A robust or delicate constitution and the strength and weakness which depend on it are often produced by the hardy or effeminate manner in which a man has been brought up then by the primitive constitution of his body. Education not only produces a difference between those minds which are cultivated and those which are not but even increases that which is found among the first in proportion to their culture. Let a giant and a dwarf set out in the same path the giant at every step will acquire a new advantage over the dwarf now. If we compare the prodigious variety in the education and manner of living of the different orders of men in a civil state with the simplicity and uniformity that prevails in the animal