Age after age of human history depicts the mass of mankind dependent on the individual. This is true in secular no less than in sacred history.
The history of Rome is the history of its statesmen, from Romulus and Tarquin to Nero and the popes. France has a succession of leaders from Charlemagne to Napoleon who, rising on the crest of circumstances, mould, each for a time, the national thought.
So, throughout ancient and modern history, on the mortal side, which constantly crystallizes into imitation of the Immortal.
