The Metropolis Has Always Been The Seat

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.

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

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

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 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.