Sublime

MAN AND MACHINE

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In contrast,

Where society has acquired a sufficient degree of stability to enable it to hold certain maxims and to retain fixed habits, the lower orders are accustomed to respect intellectual superiority and to submit to it without complaint, although they set at naught all those privileges which wealth and birth have introduced among mankind.

The despotism of public opinion, the tyranny of majorities, the absence of intellectual freedom which seemed to him to degrade administration and bring statesmanship, learning, and literature to the level of the lowest, are no longer considered. The violence of party spirit has been mitigated, and the judgment of the wise is not subordinated to the

Plus loin, il affirme que « le populisme s’est développé à partir d’un excès d’égalité, d’attitude critique envers l’autorité et d’estime de soi des personnes ordinaires », qui sont des vertus pour autant qu’elles gardent une « juste mesure78