The essential thing comes to be the reflection of the social standard in the thinker's own judgment; _the thoughts thought must always be critically judged by the thinker himself; and for the most part his judgment is at once also the social judgment_.

This may be illustrated further.
Suppose we take the man of striking thoughts and withal no sense of fitness--none of the judgment about them which society has.

He will go through a mighty host of discoveries every hour.

The very eccentricity of his imaginations will only appeal to him for the greater admiration.

He will bring his most chimerical schemes out and air them with the same assurance with which the real inventor exhibits his.