ABSTRACT
There are two kinds of human greatness, in the sense in which greatness is a quality to be admired. One kind, the purely intellectual or artistic, isolates its possessor, however much he may be appreciated or extolled. The other kind unites, by making the person in whom it is found a representative figure, in whom many men and women find their own emotions and sentiments expressed, not in mere words, but in the art of living itself. I do not deny that this second kind of greatness can sometimes be found in artists or writers, as well as in men of action; but it is found more often—not that it is found often at all—in the doer than in the philosopher or the maker of beautiful things.
