Yet the same process has been taking place in all the other departments of American social and intellectual life.

Technical experts of all kinds--engineers, men of letters, and artists--have all of them been asserting much more vigorously their own special interests and purposes.

In so asserting themselves they cannot claim the support of the American national democratic convention.

On the contrary, the proclamation of high technical standards and of insistent individual purposes is equivalent to a revolt from the traditions of the Middle Period, which were all in favor of cheap work and the average worker.

But different as is the situation of these technical experts, the fundamental meaning of their self-assertion is analogous to that of the millionaire and the "Boss." The vast incoherent mass of the American people is falling into definite social groups, which restrict and define the mental outlook and social experience of their members.