"<p>The mass, as a social force, has become so powerful in my time that there is no cave, no attitude, no perspective where we can still retreat from it. Of course, it is unwise and foolish whoever is offended by the fact of the crowd and takes refuge in the whining attitude of some squeamish and querulous individualism. The crowd is here, like the rain, the wind, the earth. It must be reckoned with. But Aristotle says: "The great multitude shows quite a slave mentality, and follows the way of life of brutes." Two and a half thousand years ago this statement was made; it is more valid today than ever.</p> <p>Human vulgarity in our time has reached such hopeless proportions that there is no longer any pedagogical method that can effectively combat it. The reflexes of the masses are no longer human in the sense in which we have come to know the human in the sense of Christian culture and classical education. You can't argue with them; it's like arguing with drunkards or lunatics who only stammer their obsessions in response. Their emotions cannot be influenced; they feel differently from humans. Compassion and sympathy are distorted in their souls; greed and bloodthirst reign in their nerves, the sad lust of unbridled and greedy frothing pleasure: human vulgarity has no limit anymore. All the more reason for every human being to remain stubbornly and courageously in his place, to think and feel as a human being should.</p>"