The differences among men which can be taken account of in any philosophy of life must be in some way referable to this mean.

The variation which does not find its niche at all in the social environment, but which strikes all the social fellows with disapproval, getting no sympathy whatever, is thereby exposed to the charge of being the "sport" of Nature and the fruit of chance.

The lack of hearing which awaits such a man sets him in a form of isolation, and stamps him not only as a social crank, but also as a cosmic tramp.
Put in its positive and usual form, this view simply claims that man is always the outcome of the social movement.

The reception he gets is a measure of the degree in which he adequately represents this movement.

Certain variations are possible--men who are forward in the legitimate progress of society--and these men are the true and only geniuses.