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Given the relative rarity of human excellence, less good than the converse, on balance; were it otherwise, what you rightly call 'excellence' would be merely co
by aaronem 13y ago
Given the relative rarity of human excellence, less good than the converse, on balance; were it otherwise, what you rightly call 'excellence' would be merely commonplace.
- thenerdfiles 13y agoYes, you hit the period right on the sentence.
- aaronem 13y agoYou mistake me, I think, due to imprecision on my part; by 'it' in the second clause, I refer to the rarity of human excellence, not to a theoretical flowering of suppressed potential in the absence of what you regard as oppressive rule.
- thenerdfiles 13y agoLow hanging fruit.