To be known of men is to have a reputation, a possession which may belong to animate or inanimate objects.
Personal reputation is based on the capacity to ascend above, or descend below, the ordinary range of human ability in some special line, while material objects are held in more or less repute, according to prevailing fashions rather than for any intrinsic values.
In all cases, reputation, whether of persons or things, depends largely upon the extent to which interested parties use to advantage the whims, vagaries or demands of certain times, circumstances or people.
