text:  Fellows and provosts of Eton might seem to others the "magnificoes" of mankind--the colossal figures which overtopped the age by their elevation or eclipsed it by their splendour--the "dii majorum gentium " who sat on the pinnacle of the modern Olympus; but Brummell saw nothing great but his tailor--nothing worthy of respect among the human arts but the art of cutting out a coat--and nothing fit to ensure human fame with posterity but the power to create and to bequeath a new fashion