“Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and wireless within reach. For the evening there is the film, cards, or a meeting to complete a day spent in the office or factory where nothing that is essential has been learnt. Withslight variation this picture ofa low cultural average holds good over the entire range from factory-hand of clerk to manager or director. Only the personal will to culture, inwhatever field and however pursued raises modern man above this level.”
