To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.