to what should be the real task of public opinion.

Kroll. What task?

Rosmer. The task of making all our fellow-countrymen into men of
nobility.

Kroll. All our fellow-countrymen--!

Rosmer. As many as possible, at all events.

Kroll. By what means?

Rosmer. By emancipating their ideas and purifying their
aspirations, it seems to me.

Kroll. You are a dreamer, Rosmer. Are you going to emancipate
them? Are you going to purify them?

Rosmer. No, my dear fellow--I can only try to awake the desire for
it in them. The doing of it rests with themselves.

Kroll. And do you think they are capable of it?

Rosmer. Yes.

Kroll. Of their own power?

Rosmer. Yes, of their own power. There is no other that can do
it.