Note 459 — ON THE PROGNOSTICS.
Francis Adams translation
The opinion here advanced is expressed with great precision by a French writer who has been making some figure in the political world of late. “Great men,” says Louis Blanc, “only govern society by means of a force which they themselves borrow. They enlighten the world only by a burning focus of all the scattered rays emanating from itself.”—Organization of Labor, p. 98, English edition.