Early laurels weigh like lead and of many of the boys whom I knew at Eton, I can say that their lives are over.... Once again romanticism with its death wish is to blame, for it lays an emphasis on childhood, on a fall from grace which is not compensated for by any doctrine of future redemption".
Early achievements weigh heavily upon some individuals, particularly those who attended Eton, and their lives have been cut short... Romantic ideals often focus on idealized childhoods and a sense of inevitable decline, which are not balanced by any notion of future redemption.