The Relative Nobility of Taste and Finger

It is quite impossible for a man not to have the qualities and predilections of his parents and ancestors in his constitution, whatever appearances may suggest. It cannot be effaced from a man's soul what his ancestors have preferably and most constantly done. In our very democratic, or rather very plebeian age, education and culture must be essentially the art of deceiving with regard to origins. An educator who nowadays preached truthfulness above everything else called out constantly to his pupils, "Be true, be natural, show yourselves as you are" would only succeed in deceiving such a readyty.