CHAPTER VII.
"Believe me, child, all the gentleman's misfortunes arose from his being educated at a public school...."-- FIELDING.
In England success is a plant of slow growth.

The tone of good society, though responsive to political talent, and openly, eagerly sensitive to money-making talent, is contemptuous of genius and rates the utmost brilliancy of the talker hardly higher than the feats of an acrobat.

Men are obstinate, slow, trusting a bank-balance rather than brains; and giving way reluctantly to sharp-witted superiority.

The road up to power or influence in England is full of pitfalls and far too arduous for those who have neither high birth nor wealth to help them.

The natural inequality of men instead of being mitigated by law or custom is everywhere strengthened and increased by a thousand effete social distinctions.