two careers, -- the career of the hero
and the career of the wanderer.

These two figures became the
commanding types of all the nobler
mythologies, because they symbolised
what was best, deepest, and most
real in human nature and life. They
represent the possible reach and the
occasional achievement of the human
soul; they stand for that which is
potential as well as for that which is
actual in human experience. Few
men achieve or experience on a great
scale; but these few are typical, and
are, therefore, transcendent in inter-
est. The average commonplace man
fills great space in contemporary his-
tory, as in the history of all times,
and his character and career are well
worth the closest study and the finest
art of the writer; but the average
man, who never achieves greatly, and

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