BrahminBoss
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In this rather elaborate series the first stage is thus the" civilized man," that is, the softened or humanized man ; the next is the " cultured man," the poet, artist, and scholar,and the last is the highest point of development of which ourspecies is capable, the " completely formed man,"—of whom(if I understand the doctrine aright) we can gain an exact ideafrom what we are told of Goethe and his " Olympian calm."The principle at the base of this theory is merely the vast difference which von Humboldt sees between the general level of a people'scivilization and the stage of perfection reached by a few greatindividuals. This difference is so great that civilizations quiteforeign to our own—that of the Brahmans, for instance—have been able, so far as we know, to produce men far superior in someways to those that are most admired among ourselves.
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