The author points out that modernity has created persons that eschew reason for strong opinion, and think of themselves as fully developed, "excellent, complete."
The author points out that modernity has created persons that eschew reason for strong opinion, and think of themselves as fully developed, "excellent, complete." Beginning with a consideration of what the author calls "agglomeration or plenitude" it notes that it "is false to say that history [*] cannot be foretold," Its chapters including "A Statistical Fact" and "The Barbarism of Specialization" were primarily drawn from essays its author wrote for the magazine El Sol. It pronounces the coming of a European confederation and expands on the ideas found in the author's previous work, Invertebrate Spain, ultimately concluding that nations are to be ruled by a benevolent, intellectual elite. FTP identify this 1930 work which argues against the decaying effects of the mob, a treatise by Jose Ortega y Gasset.
The author points out that modernity has created persons that eschew reason for strong opinion, and think of themselves as fully developed, "excellent, complete."
{The Revolt of the Masses}