Nobody else had ever discovered it, not even I myself.

I thought I was a muscle-bound iron puddler, but they pronounced me an intellectual giant.

It never occurred to me that they might have guessed wrong, while the wise old world had guessed right.

If the world was in step, they were out of step, but I figured that the world was out of step and they had the right stride.

I thought their judgment must be better than the judgment of the whole world because their judgment pleased me.