Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has a great power to in himself he must show it to the entire world in a way that cannot be gainsaid. He must fill up certain idea in the public mind. I have no other notion of greatness other than this twofold definition great results springing from great inherent energy. The great in visible objects has relation to that which extends over space: the great in mental one’s has to do with space and time, no man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history .Nothing can be said to great that has a distinct limit or borders on something evidently greater than itself. Besides what is short lived and pampered into mere notoriety is of a gross and vulgar quality in itself. A lord Mayor is hardly a great man .A city orator and a patriot of the day only show by reaching the height of their wishes the distance they are at from true ambition. Popularity is neither fame nor greatness .A king Is not a great man he has great power but it is not his own. He merely wields the lever of the state which a child an idiot or mad can do. It is the office not the man we gaze at. Anyone else in the same situation would be just as much an object of object curiosity. We laugh at the country girl who having seen a king expressed her disappointment by saying, “why, he is only a man”. Yet knowing this , we run to see a king as if he were something more than a man .To display the greatest powers , unless they are applied to great purposes makes nothing for the character of greatness.

Explaining Greatness
Hazlitt defines greatness as great power that brings great results. Mere show of power is not enough but in such a way that all get admired .Great energy is of no use until great actions are performed by utilizing it. No one Is declare great in his life but after him only History reveals his greatness .Mere popularity is not the index to greatness but it’s something truly bad and of short time. Same is the case with king Mayor, a city orator and Patriot. Kings are not great but the position they keeps make them powerful .Greatness can be gained only by Utilizing great powers.