I painted out to my mind how I should feel, if, in happier circumstances, I were uprooting hollow Thrones, and before whole nations mounting on mighty deeds as on the Temple-steps of Immortality; and, in gigantic ages, finding quite other men to OUTMAN and outstrip, than the mite-populace about me, or, at the best, here and there a Vulcanello.
"The Campaner Thal and Other Writings"
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter