A man adopts another to-day to unadopt him to-morrow and replace him by somebody else the day after.
So profoundly unimportant to them is their social identity, that they bandy it about with almost farcical freedom.

Perhaps it is fitting that there should be some slight preparation in this world for a future transmigration of souls.

Still one fails to conceive that the practice can be devoid of disadvantages even to its beneficiaries.

To foreigners it proves disastrously perplexing.

For if you chance upon a man whom you have not met for some time, you can never be quite sure how to accost him.