We can begin with dreams the veriest stone-club warrior can understand, and as far as an appeal to the eye can do it, lead him in fancy through every phase of life to the apocalyptic splendors.
This progress, according to the metaphor of this chapter, will be led by prophet-wizards.

These were the people that dominated the cave-men of old.

But what, more specifically, are prophet-wizards?
Let us consider two kinds of present-day people: scientific inventors, on the one hand, and makers of art and poetry and the like, on the other.
The especial producers of art and poetry that we are concerned with in this chapter we will call prophet-wizards: men like Albert Duerer, Rembrandt, Blake, Elihu Vedder, Watts, Rossetti, Tennyson, Coleridge, Poe, Maeterlinck, Yeats, Francis Thompson.
They have a certain unearthly fascination in some one or many of their works.

A few other men might be added to the list.

Most great names are better described under other categories, though as much beloved in their own way.