The modern-minded man,
although he believes profoundly
in the wisdom of his period,
must be presumed to be
very modest about his personal powers.

His highest hope is to think first
what is about to be thought,
to say what is about to be said,
and to feel what is about to be felt;

He has no wish to
think better thoughts than his neighbors,
to say things showing more insight,
or to have emotions which are
not those of some fashionable group,

but only to be slightly ahead
of others at that point in time.

Quite deliberately he suppresses
what is individual in himself.

Denis
DesignQuest
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