bol of inspiration.
More often than not a worry or trouble is moved entirely out of one's
path by the simplest possible device, an intelligent or instinctive
change of conditions.

The fundamental heresy of modern education is that it does not believe
this--does not believe in making deliberate arrangements for the
originality of the average man. It does not see that the extraordinary
man is simply the ordinary man keyed-up, writ large or moving more
rapidly. What the average man is now, the great men were once. When we
begin to understand that a man of genius is not supernatural, that he is
simply more natural than the rest of us, that all the things that are
true for him are true for us, except that they are true more slowly, the
educational world will be a new world. The very essence of the creative
power of a man of genius over other men, is that he believes in them
more than they do. He writes, paints, or sings as if all other men were
men of genius, and he keeps on doing it until they are. All modern human
nature is annexed genius. The whole world is a great gallery of things,
that men of genius have seen, until they make other men see them too,
and prove that other men can see them. What one man sees with travail or
by being born again, whole generations see at last without trying, and
when they are born the first time. The great cosmic process is going on
in the human spirit. Ages flow down from the stars upon it. No one man
shall guess, now or ever, what a man is, what a man shall be. But it is
to be noticed that when the world gets its greatest man--the One who
guesses most, generations are born and die to know Him, all with awe and
gentleness in their hearts. One after the other as they wheel up to the
Great Sun to live,--they call Him the Son of God because He thought
everybody was.

The main difference between a great man and a little one is a matter of
time. If the little man could keep his organs going, could keep on
experiencing, acting, and reacting on things for four thousand years, he
would have no difficulty in being as great as some men are in their
threescore and ten. All genius is inherited time and space. The
imagination, which is the psychological substitute for time and space,
is a fundamental element in all great power, because, being able to
reach results without pacing off the processes, it makes it possible for
a man to crowd more experience in, and be great in a shorter time.

The idea