SIXTH CENTURY POLITICAL ECONOMY However, I made a dead set at him, and before the first third of the dinner was reached, I had him happy again.

It was easy to do--in a country of ranks and castes.

You see, in a country where they have ranks and castes, a man isn't ever a man, he is only part of a man, he can't ever get his full growth.

You prove your superiority over him in station, or rank, or fortune, and that's the end of it--he knuckles down.

You can't insult him after that.