Men, not great enough, nor hard enough, to be entitled as artists to take part in fashioning men, not sufficiently strong and far sighted to with sublime self constraint, the obvious law of the thousandfold failures and perishings to prevail; men, not sufficiently noble to see the radically different grades of rank and intervals of rank that separate man from man: men, with their equality before God, have hitherto swayed the destiny of Europe; until at last a dwarfed, almost ludicrous species has been produced, a gregarious animal, something obliging, sickly, mediocre, the European of the present day.