Where are the great men.....and women?

Ginger and I are enjoying a few cold but sunny days in Minneapolis with our daughter Kari. Last night we were blessed by attending the Maundy Thursday service at Bethlehem Baptist Church.
One of the loves that Kari and I share is of books, especially old books, so I especially appreciated her gift of a long-sought copy of Chesterton's Charles Dickens: The Last of the Great Men (1906).
"One of the actual and certain consequences of the idea that all men are equal is immediately to produce very great men. I would say superior men, only that the hero thinks of himself as great, but not as superior. This has been hidden from us of late by a foolish worship of sinister and exceptional men, men without comradeship, or any infectious virtue." p.8