"But I ain't through.  You've been fretting that maybe the fact that you failed to hook more than ninety-nine out of a hundred was because the race couldn't get along without its present evils, had to have them for weeding out.  But damn it, lad, you've been doing the weeding out - or rather, the failures have been doing it to themselves by not listening to you.  Had you planned to eliminate money and property?"