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Here, Then, Is The Point At Which I See The New Mission Of The Librarian Rise Up Incomparably Higher Than All Those Preceding. Up Until The Present, The Librarian Has Been Principally Occupied With The Book As A Thing, As A Material Object. From Now On He Must Give His Attention To The Book As A Living Function. He Must Become A Policeman, Master Of The Raging Book.

This Leads Us To Note Down In Our Psychological Chart Of The Mass-man Of Today Two Fundamental Traits: The Free Expansion Of His Vital Desires, And, Therefore, Of His Personality; And His Radical Ingratitude Towards All That Has Made Possible The Ease Of His Existence. These Traits Together Make Up The Well-known Psychology Of The Spoilt Child.

It Would Be A Piece Of Ingenuousness To Accuse The Man Of Today Of His Lack Of Moral Code. The Accusation Would Leave Him Cold, Or Rather, Would Flatter Him. Immoralism Has Become A Commonplace, And Anybody And Everybody Boasts Of Practising It.

An 'unemployed' Existence Is A Worse Negation Of Life Than Death Itself.

A Revolution Only Lasts Fifteen Years, A Period Which Coincides With The Effectiveness Of A Generation.