For him to have fallen by the wayside would have caused no comment for it would have been expected in those early days of struggle, but to those who have the benefit of inherited tendencies toward personality, to fail in its development is in the nature of a crime.
Personality does not mean over-refinement.

_Sturdy qualities_ are the necessary ones.

Over-refinement leads to the softer life and ofttimes to degeneracy.

Exalted ego is an indication of degeneracy and may have been inherited.

Of those things we inherit that are good we must hold, and everlastingly must we watch those which are bad.