But as soon as the fins feel the water, they mean something.

Fifty-two per cent of our college graduates studied law, not because, in many cases, they have the slightest natural aptitude for it, but because it is put down as the proper road to promotion.
A man never grows in personal power and moral stamina when out of his place.

If he grows at all, it is a narrow, one-sided, stunted growth, not a manly growth.

Nature abhors the slightest perversion of natural aptitude or deviation from the sealed orders which accompany every soul into this world.
A man out of place is not half a man.

He feels unmanned, unsexed.