The other problem is that a person's area of greatness is not something manufactured by sober committee decision-making. It's the confluence of personality and

The other problem is that a person's area of greatness is not something manufactured by sober committee decision-making. It's the confluence of personality and circumstance. They would not become great if they were stuck wringing their hands about what they owe the world and how they can raise everybody up. Don't get me wrong, a particular great man's calling may be precisely to raise up his fellow man, but "greatness" is not a fleeting attribute that one is magically blessed with and then must arbitrarily direct.