The ideals of the men of that period appear to us very unattractive; to them duty was a kind of chilly sentiment.

But when we think what they did with those cold ideals, we can scarcely feel so superior.

They uprooted the enormous Upas of slavery, the tree that was literally as old as the race of man.

They altered the whole face of Europe with their deductive fancies.

We have ideals that are really better, ideals of passion, of mysticism, of a sense of the youth and adventurousness of the earth; but it will be well for us if we achieve as much by our frenzy as they did by their delicacies.