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Book ii but because he showed them how to find others 



which they never would have found unaided, and 



took for himself in payment a small portion of each. 



He promotes The great man, in fact, as an agent of social progress, 



progress not . 1-1 



by what he is great not in virtue of any completed results which 



he produces directly, by the action of his own hands 

 t h o e ^ lpsotiers or brains, or which he exhibits in his own person, 

 but in virtue of the completed results which, by 

 some simultaneous influence which he exercises 

 over the brains or hands of others, he enables 

 others to exhibit in themselves, or produce or do in 

 the form of products or social services. 



In order to realise this great truth, let us begin 



with considering that form of greatness which 



promotes social progress by supplying it with its 



first materials, and from which all other kinds of 



greatness draw some portion of their nourishment. 



we can see It so happens that one of the most remarkable 



sideringthe thinkers of this century, who, though he preceded 



knowledge, Mr. Spencer, belongs to the same school, is able to 



Is ' assist us here by a very apt and remarkable passage. 

 the foundation \Q\m Stuart Mill, in that section of his System of 



of all other J ^ 



progress. Logic to which he gives the title of " The Logic of the 

 Moral Sciences" writes thus. "In the difficult pro- 

 cess of observation and comparison which is reqidred 

 (for the purpose of obtaining a better understanding 

 of the laws of empirical sociology, and especially of 

 social progress] it would evidently be a great assist- 

 ance if it should happen to be the fact that one 

 element in the complex existence of social man is 

 pre-eminent over all the others, as the prime agent 



