Not I! I want the whole; the source and sum of divine and human knowledge, and though I craze as even one truth expands its infinitude before me, I go forth alone, rejecting all that others have done, to prove my own soul.

I shall arrive at last.

And as to mankind, in winning perfect knowledge I shall serve them; but then, all intercourse ends between them and me.

I will not be served by those I serve." "Oh," answers Festus, "is that cause safe which produces carelessness of human love?
You have thrown aside all the helps of human knowledge; now you reject all sympathy.

No man can thrive who dares to claim to serve the race, while he is bound by no single tie to the race.