I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
