Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 3, 2025
The one method by which a crowd can be freed and can be made to realize itself is the great-man method the method of crucifying and worshipping great men, until by crucifying and worshipping great men enough, inch by inch, and era by era, it is lifted to greatness itself.
They are pressed smaller and smaller the more they are civilized, the smaller they are pressed; and we are being daily brought face to face with the fact that the one solution a crowd civilization can have for the evil of being a crowd civilization is the man in the crowd who can withstand the pressure of the crowd; that is to say, the one solution of a crowd civilization is the great-man solution a solution which is none the less true because by name, at least, it leaves most of us out or because it is so familiar that we have forgotten it.
The patriarch in his venerable age, the caravaneer in his nomadic and exploring youth, his disciplined maturity, thus naturally develop as different types of chief and leader; and it is therefore not until this stage, when all is ready for the entry of Abraham or Job, of Mohammed the camel-driver, or Paul the tent-maker, that any real controversy can arise between the determinist and his opponent, between the democratic and the great-man theories of history, towards which these respectively incline.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking