Thus is explained the reason why many who have enriched themselves here in the high offices they have filled, on their return to the Peninsula relieve themselves by slanders and insults against those who have been their victims.

_Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quern laeseris!"_ "But if the world is large, if one leaves them to the peaceful enjoyment of power, if I ask only to be allowed to work, to live--" "And to rear meek-natured sons to send them afterwards to submit to the yoke," continued Simoun, cruelly mimicking Basilio's tone.

"A fine future you prepare for them, and they have to thank you for a life of humiliation and suffering! Good enough, young man! When a body is inert, it is useless to galvanize it.

Twenty years of continuous slavery, of systematic humiliation, of constant prostration, finally create in the mind a twist that cannot be straightened by the labor of a day.

Good and evil instincts are inherited and transmitted from father to son.