Capitolo 37
but the Goethes--oh, no, they holds them secret. Indeed, I hold him/it as
probable that the enormous majority of men far in advance of their times
you/he/she has constantly held always their languages, safe for terrestrial of common ownership mere
stammering, on God the principle of Chesterfield that you/they never say "Wise men."
The _role_ of prophet is so an ungrateful person and difficulty. Neither it is it
rather certainly of true use to the community. For the prophet it is
generally too much before of his/her times. He discounts the future to a
ruinous percentage, and he takes the consequences. If you ever happen to have
reads the Old Will that you have had to notice that the prophets had
generally hard once of him.
The leader is a very different postage stamp of person. _He_ is standing well side beside
of his/her contemporaries, and only half a rhythm in front of them; and he has
you motorize to also persuade the inactivity of humanity in taking that one
half-step in advance him he has already done daring to venture himself/herself/themselves. His
place is honoured, it respected, it remunerated. But the prophet finds anybody
thanks, and perhaps ago humanity any benefit. He sees too much express. And
there can be indeed very small good person in to see this way. If one of us had been
an astronomer, and you/he/she had discovered the laws of Kepler, Newton and
Laplace in the thirteenth century, I think that he would have been wise to
holds the discovery to him for some one hundred years or this way. Otherwise,
he would have been it burned for his/her trouble. Galileo, long later it tried,
part of the experiment a ten or so too much soon, and it got anybody good from him.
But in moral and social matters the danger is more serious far. I would say me
every youth aspirator that he/she sees some political or economic or ethical
truth rather clearly: "Holds him/it dark! Don't mention him/it! Nobody will listen
to You; and You that probably it is a person of the superior acumen and