D Carr’s Reviews > How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate > Status Update

"...to Edgeworth’s bewilderment, young Dick proved totally impervious to authority. Free to do exactly as he pleased, indulged...and handed everything he demanded, the 'child bred in the hut of a savage' was becoming a perfect monster." Again, the result of starting out under a false premise - this one being that children are born inherently good and (left on their own) will remain that way.