So we should expect that the greater singularities of disposition which represent insuperable difficulty in the process of social assimilation would show themselves early.

Here it is that the actual conflict comes--the struggle between impulse and social restraint.

Many a genius owes the redemption of his intellectual gifts to legitimate social uses to the victory gained by a teacher and the discipline learned through obedience.

And thus it is also that many who give promise of great distinction in early life fail to achieve it.

They run off after a phantom, and society pronounces them mad.