He is born to his trade, not naturally selected because of his fitness for it.

But he usually is amply qualified for the position, for generations of practice, if only on one side of the house, accumulate a vast deal of technical skill.

The result of this system of clan guilds in all branches of industry is sufficiently noticeable.

The almost infinite superiority of Japanese artisans over their European fellow-craftsmen is world-known.

On the other hand the tendency of the occupation in the abstract to swallow up the individual in the concrete is as evident to theory as it is patent in practice.