पृष्ठ 614 / 1294

It's remarkable, in fact, that the majority, indeed, of these

benefactors and leaders of humanity were guilty of terrible

carnage. In short, I maintain that all great men or even men a

little out of the common, that is to say capable of giving some

new word, must from their very nature be criminals--more or less,

of course. Otherwise it's hard for them to get out of the common

rut; and to remain in the common rut is what they can't submit

to, from their very nature again, and to my mind they ought not,

indeed, to submit to it. You see that there is nothing

particularly new in all that. The same thing has been printed and

read a thousand times before. As for my division of people into

ordinary and extraordinary, I acknowledge that it's somewhat

arbitrary, but I don't insist upon exact numbers.