Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.
When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form.
A bit of a theory, more a corner of the eye noticing than an airtight argument: in the course of long artistic careers, women are more likely than men to change form and style, Proteus-like.
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