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Making a vital distinction between "mass" and "class," he defines "mass-mind" as the commonplace mind, no matter in what class it is found. The massman is barbarian, only concerned with his own wellbeing, content to plunder civilization, not labor intelligently to continue it. By his definition of "barbarian" Ortega y Gasset covers a multitude of public "leaders": "If anyone in a discussion with us is not concerned with adjusting himself to truth, if he has no wish to find the truth, he is intellectually a barbarian. That, in fact, is the position of the massman when he speaks, lectures...
...people and an independent republic constitute the only status with which we will ever be satisfied. . . .* The Irish Republican Army always will be in the forefront in the attack on British interests. It certainly will be a menace to British law and British order . . . which have arisen out of plunder and exploitation. . . . To free our country, to rescue it from national economic bondage ?these are our tasks! Into the revolutionary organizations defending the republic the people must be drafted...
Traveling with a suite which included his Venerable Mother, three of his numerous wives, half a dozen of his staff members and his suites, Marshal Chang steamed over to Dairen. Manchuria?his usual jumping off place for a plunder-raid on China...
...mild spoken little Amir Abdullah of Transjordania, a contented British puppet whose chief delight is in breeding priceless Arab steeds. Last week the Amir dutifully hastened across the River Jordan by means of Allenby Bridge, successfully dissuaded some 300 of his subjects who had set out minded to wage plunder in Palestine...
...mass of Arabs, flaunting banners that flapped like big bats in the twilight. Down the lane they roared. Vainly an old beadle tried to halt them, was seized by powerful dark hands, hurled aside. Two Jews bowed in prayer at the altar were savagely beaten. In a frenzy of plunder the Moslems burned prayer books and psalters, smashed lamps, made off with sacred relics...