General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.