The Anatomy of Anomie (II)

Abstract

‘But you will also feel the awful misery of those in desperation. Bewildered, crushed, you will struggle in uncertainties. You will cry for help from every side, and there will be no answer. You will stretch out your arms, you will appeal for aid, love, consolation, rescue — and no one will come. Why do we suffer thus? Because we were no doubt born to live more in accordance with our physical than our mental beings; but, as the result of thought, a disproportion has arisen between the state of our enlarged intelligence, and the immutable conditions of our life.’¹