I. Consider the new human environment created by the development of mechanization. Spengler’s beautiful pages on the modern city and the major alienation of man it creates. “Men only know each other experientially as the objects of an opaque process . . . between the sudden shock and sudden forgetting they are no longer capable of feeling the continuous sense of time. . . .” (summarized by T. W. Adorno, Studies in Philosophy and Social Science, New York, 1941).
