One of the unforeseen and unintended results of the increasing importance of experts in the modern world is that, in a great many departments of life, the ordinary man has become passive where he used to be active.
Source: Are we too passive? (written in Feb. 3, 1932 and pub. in Mortals and Others, v.1, 1975
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