Abstract
“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportioned to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few men dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time.”
John Stuart Mill, 1859
“… our national apotheosis of the group means that we systematically lop off the eccentrics, the originals, the proud, imaginative, lonely people from whom new ideas come.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 1958
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