There is a very marked tendency among persons of culture to feel dissatisfied with themselves and their success in life when they do not exercise direct and visible influence over others. He is apt to think that his culture and intelligence are lost upon the world and that hi is a failure or he finds fault with the world in general for not giving him a proper chance of making his abilities tell. The facilities for obtaining culture are so many and great, and within the reach of so many well to do people that hundreds of people become so clever in various ways, who otherwise would have remained utterly uncultivated had they lived in previous century.
A few of course distinguish themselves in literature and other pursuits which bring notoriety to the successful.
A greater number have to remain in positions of obscurity, often being clearly conscious that they have ability and knowledge. the position of the clever man who remains bscure is, if he has ambition, rather trying to the moral fibre, but there are certain considerations which might help to give a direction to his energy and so procure him a sure relief, which reputation too frequently fails to provide.
Intellectual men often keep their intellect to themselves. it is often useless they think to elevate any human being above his own intellectual level unless he gradually climbs himself as a man who ascends a mountain.
Often we find considerations not of a common type which do charities like the for example the alpine snows are good for the irrigation of the valleys though the meadows that they water must be eight or ten feet below them. it can never be given to the intellect that has not developed. and that power and activity comes only with years of labour.
A few of course distinguish themselves in literature and other pursuits which bring notoriety to the successful.
A greater number have to remain in positions of obscurity, often being clearly conscious that they have ability and knowledge. the position of the clever man who remains bscure is, if he has ambition, rather trying to the moral fibre, but there are certain considerations which might help to give a direction to his energy and so procure him a sure relief, which reputation too frequently fails to provide.
Intellectual men often keep their intellect to themselves. it is often useless they think to elevate any human being above his own intellectual level unless he gradually climbs himself as a man who ascends a mountain.
Often we find considerations not of a common type which do charities like the for example the alpine snows are good for the irrigation of the valleys though the meadows that they water must be eight or ten feet below them. it can never be given to the intellect that has not developed. and that power and activity comes only with years of labour.
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