Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (57192)	10/5/1999 11:15:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"E" et al: In her prescient 1991 Jefferson Lecture "Of Heroes, Villains and Valets," Gertrude Himmelfarb cites Hegel's dictum, "No man is a hero to his valet; not, however, because the man is not a hero, but because the valet--is a valet." Hegel, explains Himmelfarb, "had contempt for those small-minded men, men with the souls of valets, who reduce historical individuals to their own level of sensibility and consciousness." It is all around us today, an epidemic in contemporary historiography: the impulse, when in the presence of greatness, to level.... washingtonpost.com