The Assimilation of the Europeans

A statesman who should do all this, which his people would have to do penance for throughout their whole future, such a statesman would be great, wouldn't he? The old men had obviously become heated as they thus shouted their truths in each other's faces. But I, in my happiness and apartness, considered how soon a stronger one will become master of the strong. There is a compensation for the intellectual superficialising of a nation, namely in the deepening of another. Perhaps everything great has just been mad at its commencement.