In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.
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Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.
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The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.
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The eighteenth century called upon man to free himself of all the historical bonds in the state and in religion, in morals and in economics.
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