These things indeed suggest to one that it is possible that the Uranian spirit may lead to something like a general enthusiasm of Humanity, and that the Uranian people may be destined to form the advance guard of that great movement which will one day transform the common life by substituting the bond of personal affection and compassion for the monetary, legal and other external ties which now control and confine society. Such a part of course we cannot expect the Uranians to play unless the capacity for their kind of attachment also exists--though in a germinal and undeveloped state--in the breast of mankind at large. And modern thought and investigation are clearly tending that way--to confirm that it does so exist. Dr. E. Bertz in his late study of Whitman as a person of strongly homogenic temperament[62] brings forward the objection that Whitman’s gospel of Comradeship as a means of social regeneration is founded on a false basis--because (so Dr. Bertz says) the gospel derives from an abnormality in himself, and therefore cannot possibly have a universal application or create a general enthusiasm. But this is rather a case of assuming the point which has to be proved. Whitman constantly maintains that his own disposition at any rate is normal, and that he represents the average man. And it _may_ be true, even as far as his Uranian temperament is concerned, that while this was specially developed in him the germs of it _are_ almost, if not quite, universal. If so, then the Comradeship on which Whitman founds a large portion of his message may in course of time become a general enthusiasm, and the nobler Uranians of to-day may be destined, as suggested, to be its pioneers and advance guard. As one of them himself has sung:-- These things shall be! A loftier race, Than e’er the world hath known, shall rise With flame of freedom in their souls, And light of science in their eyes. Nation with nation, land with land, In-armed shall live as comrades free; In every heart and brain shall throb The pulse of one fraternity.[63]