is found potent enough to arouse a trace of the
desired result."

As a result of these limitations, it is hard to
find differences between one and another man
of the same era and general social condition that
are clearly due to differences in training. The
great scholar is not made by attendance at a
university; rather his own nature made him
seek that influence scorned by so many others
Many a drunkard remains so in spite of fewer
temptations. Saloons being inaccessible, he
drinks at home; whiskey being debarred, he
takes to "bitters" or patent medicines; one
suspects that if alcohol did not exist, he would
soon discover cocaine. Each nature in some
measure selects its own environment, and each
nature may get from an environment a different
influence, so that the relative achievements of,
say, the boys who this year begin school in
America, will probably be more closely parallel
to their relative original talents and interests
than to their relative advantages in home and
school environment.

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