He thought of nothing else.

He sensed men as groups--thinking, desiring, trading, building--and for these ends organized into neighborhoods, villages, cities, and states.

His genius, even then, was interested in using these groups for progressive ends, such as he had in view.

He was a super-man who sees empires of progress and achievement for the race through the haze of the unformed future, and who takes the responsibility of carving that future out and of forcing history into the segment that his creative imagination has opened.

He would guide and make the future, while serving men.
Here he was then just past twenty-one, born on April 23d, the reputed birthday of Shakespeare; young, and yet old with a maturity with which he was invested at his entrance into the world.