Winston Graham. The stranger from the sea (№ 390883)

But what does it all matter? Who can argue that your ancestors lived here before mine? Only matters who you are. Water think about it: whose pedigree is longer than the other? Aren't we all descended from Adam?
But society looks at it differently.
- So it looks at this all wrong! Name attach such importance! But all have names! Because Poldark own the property, and Boscawen own the property, and Dunstanville, and Trevanion, and others, Karna, Smiths, Carters, Martina and Infamy... And even painter, one day we all descended from a common ancestor. Someone was lucky or he was smarter, or had the ability to get up above the rest, and continued to climb up over the centuries, but that he didn't deserve more praise or honor.