“ The Free Man, we may observe, is not envious, but gladly recognizes what is great and exalted, and rejoices that it exists.
It is in the light of those common elements which constitute the interest and therefore the passions of individuals, that these historical men are to be regarded. They are great men, because they willed and accomplished something great ”
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1837). copy citation