The Unselfing and Depersonalising of the Objective Man

The learned man is full of petty envy, and has a link's eye for the weak points in those natures to whose elevations he cannot attain. He is confiding only as one who lets himself go, but does not flow. The Jesuitism of mediocrity labours instinctively for the destruction of the exceptional man. It endeavours to break or still better to relax, every bent bow.