The basic relativity of nature and nurture can not be overlooked. Sentience imports for us to be conscious of something and that something, whether painful, pleasurable, or indifferent, comes within our experience. The character, quality, and trend of such experiences depend upon and are, to a great extent, determined by our birth, nationality, place, etc. - in short, by heredity and environment. The station in life, the position he holds in society, determine the character of the experiences of the individual. Station in life is determined by birth and immediate surroundings.
Birth is determined by previous acts.
Only a few surpass the limits of their birth. The overwhelming majority lives, moves, and toils within the status inherited by their predecessors, rising a little now here or falling down there. Human life is a book of experiences. In its pages are written the joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, the ups and downs, all events and incidents, which a man, as a sentient being, encounters during the career of his earthly existence. An individual does not generally obtain without effort the position he covets in the group of which he is a member.