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Every true man is a cause, a country and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design; - and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleve to his genius, that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man, as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism of Fox; Methodism of Wesley; Abolition of CLARKSON.
Scipio, Milton called 'the height of Rome;' and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and ernest persons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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