of race. Granted that one knows something of the parents, it is admissible to draw a conclusion about the child: any kind of offensive incontinence, any kind of sordid envy, or of clumsy self-vaunting — the three things which together have constituted the genuine plebeian type in all times — such must pass over to the child, as surely as bad blood; and with the help of the best education and culture one will only succeed in DECEIVING with regard to such heredity. — And what else does education and culture try to do nowadays! In our very democratic, or rather, very plebeian age, “education” and “culture” MUST be essentially the art of deceiving — deceiving with regard to origin, with regard to the inherited plebeianism in body and soul.

An educator who nowadays preached