His view of morality is propagated by men who have never heard of him—he
merely gave them a formal, academic status. A Kantian sense of “duty” is
inculcated by parents whenever they declare that a child must do something
because he must. A child brought up under the constant battering of
causeless, arbitrary, contradictory, inexplicable “musts” loses (or never
acquires) the ability to grasp the distinction between realistic necessity and
human whims—and spends his life abjectly, dutifully obeying the second and
defying the first. In the full meaning of the term, he grows up without a clear
grasp of reality.