If a man were to inherit sinfulness prior to committing an actual sin, he would be less than the race. Here, Kierkegaard continues a thought that is diametrically opposed to communism as we now know it. The state, the throng of men, the entire world combined, is less important than the solitary individual. In a footnote to the quote above, Kierkegaard is careful to say that when he says that the 'crowd is untruth', he does not only mean the ugly and angered throng, or the unlearned rabble. He means any group, any number of people, who as a group lay claim to truth.
Truth is true only when posited by individuals.
The falsehood first of all is the notion that the crowd does what in fact only the individual in the crowd does, though it be every individual . For 'crowd' is an abstraction and has no hands. This crowd, however, does not only consist of the 'numeric masses'. It is epitomized and exacerbated by the press. Kierkegaard always detested the press, though he did publish articles himself.