I don't mean to say that something may not be added by Nature to make up for losses and keep the race to its average, but we are mainly nothing but the answer to a long sum in addition and subtraction.

No doubt there are people born with impulses at every possible angle to the parallels of Nature, as you call them.

If they happen to cut these at right angles, of course they are beyond the reach of common influences.

Slight obliquities are what we have most to do with in education.

Penitentiaries and insane asylums take care of most of the right-angle cases .-- I am afraid I have put it too much like a professor, and I am only a student, you know.