Eventually the man is lost in the manner.

The very names of trades express the fact.

The Japanese word for cabinet-maker, for example, means literally cutting-thing-house, and is now applied as distinctively to the man as to his shop.

Nominally as well as practically the youthful Japanese artisan makes his introduction to the world, much after the manner of the hero of Lecocq's comic opera, the son of the house of Marasquin et Cie.
If instead of belonging to the lower middle class our typical youth be born of bluer blood, or if he be filled with the same desires as if he were so descended, he becomes a student.

Having failed to discover in the school-room the futility of his country's self-vaunted learning, he proceeds to devote his life to its pursuit.