How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

一个理性的存在如何能被任何不是通过它自己的努力而获得的东西赋予高贵呢?

-- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin 玛丽·葛德文