Sin worked still further destruction. For the process of disintegration cannot stop. Satan makes them principles of division, and so forces a racial struggle. It goes the same way as far as the different classes, sexes, characters, nationalities, and trade organizations are concerned. Even in these moments, asking the question is no more than a token vote.
Personal aptitude is deformed into one-sidedness.
Everywhere differences become antitheses. Culture, as the systematic endeavour of the developing sum-total of human beings towards the acquisition of the aggregate of labour, is hereby already formally dissolving itself. This formal dissolution is the fruit of a material falling away from God. Faith in His covenant word was forsaken. The idea of man's office was thereby abandoned.