ABSTRACT
A whole new age of inventors has flooded the lives of the people; the modern world is full of new inventions in men—of men who have invented their own souls, democrats, self-made men. One cannot help wishing that our Socialists to-day would outgrow Karl Marx, and that our individualists would outgrow Emerson. Democrats by this time ought to grow a little too, and outgrow Jefferson, and Republicans ought to be able by this time to outgrow Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton had really a rather timid and polite idea of what an aristocrat was, and Jefferson had merely sketched out a ground-plan for a democrat. If Hamilton had been aristocratic in the modern sense, he would have devoted half his career to expressing a man like Jefferson; and if Jefferson had been more of a democrat, he would have had room in himself to tuck in several Alexander Hamiltons. Either one of them would have been a Crowd-Man.
