It was only this morning, with the faint glimpse of the dawn whilst the night clouds were still unpierced by the sunlight, that I seemed to realize their greatness.

I have seen the same enlightening effect of aerial perspective a few times before--in Colorado, in Upper India, in Thibet, and in the uplands amongst the Andes.
There is certainly something in looking at things from above which tends to raise one's own self-esteem.

From the height, inequalities simply disappear.

This I have often felt on a big scale when ballooning, or, better still, from an aeroplane.

Even here from the tower the outlook is somehow quite different from below.