It's all right.

The arrangement has reference to the race, and not to the individual.

Infirmity must be kicked out, or the stock run down.
Wholesale moral arrangements are so different from retail!--I understand the instinct, my friend,--it is cosmic,--it is planetary,--it is a conservative principle in creation.
The young fellow's face gradually lost its expression as I was speaking, until it became as blank of vivid significance as the countenance of a gingerbread rabbit with two currants in the place of eyes.

He had not taken my meaning.
Presently the intelligence came back with a snap that made him wink, as he answered,--Jest so.

All right.