Hence this respect which we show to such a person (properly, to the law that his example holds before us) is not mere admiration, as is confirmed also by this: that when the common horde of a man's fanciers believes that it has from somewhere else discovered the in the character of such a man (as, say, Voltaire), it abandons all respect toward him, whereas the true scholar continues to feel it at least from the viewpoint of the man's talents, because he is himself involved in a business and a calling that to a certain extent makes imitation of the man a law for him.