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inconsistent features in their career; for it was they who best understood affairs; from whom
others learned; and approved; or at least acquiesced in their policy。 For that Spirit which had
taken this fresh step in history is the inmost soul of all individuals; but in a state of unconsciousness
which the great men in question aroused。 Their fellows; therefore; follow these soul…leaders; for
they feel the irresistible power of their own inner Spirit thus embodied。 If we go on to cast a look
at the fate of these World…Historical persons; whose vocation it was to be the agents of the
World…Spirit; — we shall find it to have been no happy one。 They attained no calm enjoyment;
their whole life was labour and trouble; their whole nature was nought else but their
master…passion。 When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel。 They
die early; like Alexander; they are murdered; like Caesar; transported to St。 Helena。; like
Napoleon。 This fearful consolation — that historical men have not enjoyed what is called
happiness; and of which only private life (and this may be passed under very various external
circumstances) is capable; — this consolation those may draw from history; who stand in need of
it; and it is craved by Envy — vexed at what is great and transcendent; — striving; therefore; to
depreciate it; and to find some flaw in it。 Thus in modern time
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