Mankind in the Making
by H. G. Wells
With a skin of infinite delicacy, where life hardens very quickly, with a disturbingly curving body, with a weak and noisy protest that excites the heart, where being comes to protest the world, and if death does not win, both luck and the life forces within it, we take advantage of this soft helplessness of man. Some things are inevitable and unchanging in this person, things that are imprinted on his existence long before his birth, things that are inherited, things that are inalienable, his final and fundamental self.
