The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.
Society is founded on hero-worship.
Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?
Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Worship is transcendent wonder.