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of being cherished. Yet this does not prevent that 

 certain types of great men, men who are in advance 

 of their times and announce new doctrines and faiths, 

 will be rejected and denied by their contemporaries. 

 This is the order of nature. Minorities lead and save 

 the world, and the world knows them not till long af- 

 terward. 



No man perhaps suspects how large and important 

 the region of unconsciousness in him, what a vast, 

 unknown territory lies there back of his conscious 

 will and purpose, and which is really the controlling 

 power of his life. Out of it things arise, and shape 

 and define themselves to his consciousness and rule 

 his career. Here the influence of environment works ; 

 here the elements of race, of family ; here the Time- 

 Spirit moulds him and he knows it not ; here Nature, 

 or Fate, as we sometimes name it, rules him and 

 makes him what he is. 



In every people or nation stretches this deep, un- 

 suspected background. Here the great movements 

 begin ; here the deep processes go on ; here the des- 

 tiny of the race or nation really lies. In this soil 

 the new ideas are sown ; the new man, the despised 

 leader, plants his seed here, and if they be vital they 

 thrive, and in due time emerge and become the con- 

 scious possession of the community. 



None knew better than Carlyle himself that, who- 

 ever be the ostensible potentates and law-makers, the 

 wise do virtually rule, the natural leaders do lead. 

 Wisdom will out : it is the one thing in this world 



