Modern Culture Is Constantly Growing More Objective.

Secrecy Sets Barriers Between Men, But At The Same Time Offers The Seductive Temptation To Break Through The Barriers By Gossip Or Confession.

The Calculative Exactness Of Practical Life Which The Money Economy Has Brought About Corresponds To The Ideal Of Natural Science: To Transform The World By Mathematical Formulas. Only Money Economy Has Filled The Days Of So Many People With Weighing, Calculating, With Numerical Determinations, With A Reduction Of Qualitative Values To Quantitative Ones.

Modern Culture Is Constantly Growing More Objective. Its Tissues Grow More And More Out Of Impersonal Energies, And Absorb Less And Less The Subjective Entirety Of The Individual.

On The One Hand, Life Is Made Infinitely Easy For The Personality In That Stimulations, Interests, Uses Of Time And Consciousness Are Offered To It From All Sides. They Carry The Person As If In A Stream, And One Needs Hardly To Swim For Oneself.

The Intellectually Sophisticated Person Is Indifferent To All Genuine Individuality, Because Relationships And Reactions Result From It Which Cannot Be Exhausted With Logical Operations.