The genius does accomplish the world movements.

Napoleon did set the destiny of Europe, and Frederick did reveal, in a sense, a new phase of moral conduct.

The truth of these things is just what makes the enthusiasm of the common man so healthy and stimulating.

It is not the least that the genius accomplishes that he thus elevates the traditions of man and inspires the literature that the people read.

He sows the seeds of effort in the fertile soil of the newborn of his own kind, while he leads those who do not have the same gifts to rear and tend the growing plant in their own social gardens.