I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms,
and with the invisible molecular moral forces
that work from individual to individual,
stealing in through the crannies of the world
like so many soft rootlets,
or like the capillary oozing of water,
and yet rending the hardest monuments of man's pride,
if you give them time.
William James, born January 11, 1842
From a letter to Mrs. Henry Whitman
