he himself must perhaps have been critic, and dogmatist, and historian, and besides, poet, and collector, and traveler, and riddle reader, and moralist, and seer, and free spirit, and almost everything, in order to traverse the whole range of human values and estimations, and that he may with a variety of eyes and consciences to look from a height to any distance, from a depth up to any height, from a nook into any expanse.