The great minds are exalted, the great hearts are neglected.
Artists also have united with authors for strengthening this idolatry of intellect.

One of the great pictures in the French Academy of Design assembles the immortals of all ages.

Having erected a tribunal in the center of the scene, Delaroche places Intellect upon the throne.
Also, when the sons of genius are assembled about that glowing center, all are seen to be great thinkers.

There stand Democritus, a thinker about invisible atoms; Euclid, a thinker about invisible lines and angles; Newton, a thinker about an invisible force named gravity; La Place, a thinker about the invisible law that sweeps suns and stars forward toward an unseen goal.
The artist also remembers the inventors whose useful thoughts blossom into engines and ships; statesmen whose wise thoughts blossom into codes and constitutions; speakers whose true thoughts blossom into orations, and artists whose beautiful thoughts appear as pictures.

At this assembly of the immortals great thinkers touch and jostle.