That because Beatrice’s family carried the Vance name, its future was a Vance birthright.

That because a boy carried the right chromosomes, he deserved a fortune he had done nothing to build.

It is a very old belief, older than any of us, and it feels, to the people who hold it, not like a belief at all but like the natural order of things.

And it is false, top to bottom, and the falseness of it is the engine of most of the injustice I have ever seen.

Nothing worth having is owed to anyone by blood.

A company is not owed by blood; it is built by work.