Beethoven

God acts upon earth only by means of superior chosen men. --HERDER: Ideas Toward a History of Mankind.
As life broadens with advancing culture, and people are able to appropriate to themselves more of the various forms of art, the artist himself attains to greater power, his abilities increase in direct ratio with the progress in culture made by the people and their ability to comprehend him. When one side or phase of an art comes to be received, new and more difficult problems are invariabl...