The Majority Prove Their Worth By Keeping

The Ability To Get Along Without An Exceptional Leader Is The Mark Of Social Vigor.

It Is Thus With Most Of Us; We Are What Other People Say We Are. We Know Ourselves Chiefly By Hearsay.

Even The Sober Desire For Progress Is Sustained By Faith—faith In The Intrinsic Goodness Of Human Nature And In The Omnipotence Of Science. It Is A Defiant And Blasphemous Faith, Not Unlike That Held By The Men Who Set Out To Build A "city And A Tower, Whose Top May Reach Unto Heaven" And Who Believed That "nothing Will Be Restrained From Them, Which They Have Imagined To Do.

Unpredictability, Too, Can Become Monotonous.

To The Creative Individual All Experience Is Seminal-all Events Are Equidistant From New Ideasand Insights.