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soem special reason may make each one of them so.
But when it comes to the ideal of the admirable, in itself, its very nature of its being is to be a precise idea; and if somebody tells me it is either this, or that, or that other, I say to him, it is clear you have no idea of what precisely it is.
But an ideal must be capable of being embraced in a unitary idea or it is no ideal at all.
Therefore, there can be no compromises between different considerations here.
The admirable ideal cannot be too extremely admirable.
The more throughly it has whatever character is essential to it, the more admirable it must be.