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1957 25th Anniversary edition. From 1200 to 1800 A.D. the population of the Western World remained almost constant. In the last 100 years in Europe and America the population has tripled in numbers. Out of this has risen the phenomenon of the mass-man. Can Western culture survive the encroachments of the mass-man? Can republican institutions survive this chaotic democracy? These are the problems to which Ortegas book seeks a realistic solution.