The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.
"The Metropolis and Modern Life" by Georg Simmel (1903), translated by Kurt Wolff in "The Sociology of Georg Simmel" edited by D. Weinstein, New York: Free Press, (p. 422), 1950.
