the people who have become rich has not experienced in his own case,
with what difficulty he carefully trained himself to this
cleanliness, which only confirms the proverb, "Little white hands
love other people's work"?

To-day cleanliness consists in changing your shirt once a day; to-
morrow, in changing it twice a day. To-day it means washing the
face, and neck, and hands daily; to-morrow, the feet; and day after
to-morrow, washing the whole body every day, and, in addition and in
particular, a rubbing-down. To-day the table-cloth is to serve for
two days, to-morrow there must be one each day, then two a day. To-
day the footman's hands must be clean; to-morrow he must wear gloves,
and in his clean gloves he must present a letter on a clean salver.
And there are no limits to this cleanliness, which is useless to
everybody, and objectless, except for the purpose of separating
oneself from others, and of rendering impossible all intercourse with
them, when this cleanliness is attained by the labors of others.

Moreover, when I studied the subject, I because convinced that even
that which is commonly called education is the very same thing.

The tongue does not deceive; it calls by its real name that which men
understand under this name. What the people call culture is
fashionable clothing, political conversation, clean hands,--a certain
sort of cleanliness. Of such a man, it is said, in contradistinction
to others, that he is an educated man. In a little higher circle,
what they call education means the same thing as with the people;
only to the conditions of education are added playing on the
pianoforte, a knowledge of French, the writing of Russian without
orthographical errors, and a still greater degree of external