In The Latter Case Life Rests Upon

The Metropolis Has Always Been The Seat Of The Money Economy.

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 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.

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.

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.