For The Division Of Labor Demands From

For The Division Of Labor Demands From The Individual An Ever More One-sided Accomplishment, And The Greatest Advance In A One-sided Pursuit Only Too Frequently Means Dearth To The Personality Of The Individual.

The Deepest Problems Of Modern Life Derive From The Claim Of The Individual To Preserve The Autonomy And Individuality Of His Existence In The Face Of Overwhelming Social Forces, Of Historical Heritage, Of External Culture, And Of The Technique Of Life.

By My Existence I Am Nothing More Than An Empty Place, An Outline,that Is Reserved Within Being In General. Given With It, Though, Is The Duty To Fill In This Empty Place. That Is My Life.

The Individual Has Become A Mere Cog In An Enormous Organization Of Things And Powers Which Tear From His Hands All Progress, Spirituality, And Value In Order To Transform Them From Their Subjective Form Into The Form Of A Purely Objective Life.

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.