No, Tracy" (shudder from Tracy) "nobody in England would call you a gentleman and you wouldn't call yourself one; and I tell you it's a state of things that makes a man put himself into most unbecoming attitudes sometimes--the broad and general recognition and acceptance of caste as caste does, I mean.

Makes him do it unconsciously--being bred in him, you see, and never thought over and reasoned out.

You couldn't conceive of the Matterhorn being flattered by the notice of one of your comely little English hills, could you ?" "Why, no." "Well, then, let a man in his right mind try to conceive of Darwin feeling flattered by the notice of a princess.

It's so grotesque that it--well, it paralyzes the imagination.

Yet that Memnon was flattered by the notice of that statuette; he says so--says so himself.