However, even people living after those individuals may still come to unjust conclusions when decide the greatness of them. Sometimes an individual's image has been described in an exaggerated way that leads to a hallowed image of the individual.U Consider, for example, Mao Zedong, the Chinese political leader, who led Chinese Communist Party victory against Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, and the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976, and most Chinese regard him as the greatest revolutionary military, political leader, poet, calligrapher and writer, to whom they think the establishment of People’s Republic of China can be attributed.
UYet, common sense tells us that there is no real person without even a single a flaw in an otherwise perfect character.
In fact, no one can decide the greatness of individuals totally object, no matter people who live in the same time period or those who live after them and perhaps only time could tell and decide an individual's greatness. It is impossible for someone to consider all the factors that may have an effect on the individual's greatness and should not be ignored while evaluating the greatness of an individual. How can you be entirely familiar with the social environment in a historical time period since you could never be on the scene for yourself? How can you Ube unacted onU all the social traditions, the social values and the comments on the individual's greatness that you try to decide? Anyway, we can only gradually approach the real greatness of an individual.
In summary, due to some exterior reasons, individuals' contemporaries often can not give an objective decision on the greatness of them. Yet, even people who live after them still cannot decide their greatness totally correctly, as they can never take into account all of circumstances of history. Only time will tell us about the greatness of individuals.
