Of her parents he knew nothing, except that her father must have been a damned hundsfoot, and a schelm, for selling his own flesh and blood to Adrian Brackel; […]

But with the statement above, I honestly can't recall a situation where it wasn't true although I have no sciencey data to back this up.

Yuanzhou District of Ningxia Province At the onset, it should be clarified that upon the start of the Tsinghua Education-to-Aid-the-Poor Project, Yuanzhou district was far more advanced than Huade County in the area of distance education. Since 2000, Yuanzhou district has been involved in two national projects—Applying Information Technology in Education and Modern Distance Education in Rural Areas—both of which are funded by the Chinese government in partnership with certain international organizations.

He’s using people in a nonloving fashion to serve the purpose of his argument.