97
If we change a single word of Lord Bacon's we may say: infimarum Græcorum virtutum apud philologos laus est, mediarum admiratio, supremarum sensus nullus.
98
How can anyone glorify and venerate a whole people! It is the individuals that count, even in the case of the Greeks.
99
There is a great deal of caricature even about the Greeks: for example, the careful attention devoted by the Cynics to their own happiness.
100
The only thing that interests me is the relationship of the people considered as a whole to the training of the single individuals: and in the case of the Greeks there are some factors which are very favourable to the development of the individual. They do not, however, arise from the goodwill of the people, but from the struggle between the evil instincts.
By means of happy inventions and discoveries, we can train the individual differently and more highly than has yet been done by mere chance and accident. There are still hopes: the breeding of superior men.