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I only believe in my leading idea that men are in general divided

by a law of nature into two categories, inferior (ordinary), that

is, so to say, material that serves only to reproduce its kind,

and men who have the gift or the talent to utter a new word.

There are, of course, innumerable sub-divisions, but the

distinguishing features of both categories are fairly well

marked. The first category, generally speaking, are men

conservative in temperament and law-abiding; they live under

control and love to be controlled. To my thinking it is their

duty to be controlled, because that's their vocation, and there

is nothing humiliating in it for them. The second category all

transgress the law; they are destroyers or disposed to

destruction according to their capacities. The crimes of these

men are of course relative and varied; for the most part they

seek in very varied ways the destruction of the present for the

sake of the better.