His finished product did not serve its temporary purpose much better than did the current careless and hasty product, and his higher standards and peculiar ways constituted an implied criticism upon the easy methods of his neighbors.

He interfered with the rough good-fellowship which naturally arises among a group of men who submit good-naturedly and uncritically to current standards.
It is no wonder, consequently, that the pioneer Democracy viewed with distrust and aversion the man with a special vocation and high standards of achievement.

Such a man did insist upon being in certain respects better than the average; and under the prevalent economic social conditions he did impair the consistency of feeling upon which the pioneers rightly placed such a high value.

Consequently they half unconsciously sought to suppress men with special vocations.

For the most part this suppression was easily accomplished by the action of ordinary social and economic motives.