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Fitness for high social rank or public office is not necessarily transmitted by heredity, but if the parents already possess it, their offspring is more likely to receive the kind of upbringing which will favour his acquisition of such fitness. This is one argument for caste. But the numerous failures show that no guarantee is possible.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 562