He Is Educated Who Knows How To

In Order To Accommodate To Change And To The Contrast Of Phenomena, The Intellect Does Not Require Any Shocks And Inner Upheavals; It Is Only Through Such Upheavals That The More Conservative Mind Could Accommodate To The Metropolitan Rhythm Of Events.

The Psychological Basis Of The Metropolitan Type Of Individuality Consists In The Intensification Of Nervous Stimulation Which Results From The Swift And Uninterrupted Change Of Outer And Inner Stimuli.

In The Latter Case Life Rests Upon A Thousand Presuppositions Which The Individual Can Never Trace Back To Their Origins, And Verify; But Which He Must Accept Upon Faith And Belief.

Nothing More Can Be Attempted Than To Establish The Beginning And The Direction Of An Infinitely Long Road. The Pretension Of Any Systematic And Definitive Completeness Would Be, At Least, A Self-illusion. Perfection Can Here Be Obtained By The Individual Student Only In The Subjective Sense That He Communicates Everything He Has Been Able To See.

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.