...classes, and resulted in accelera ing the process of barbarization. But the ultimate problem remains Y\V a ghost, ever present and unlaid: Is it possible to extend a higher civiliz; tion to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting i quality to the vanishing...

...They have destroyed the upper classes, and resulted in accelerating the process of barbarization. But the ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid : Is it possible to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing...

...intellectual life, which we call the barbarisation of the ancient world." He ends on a note of pessimism—" Is not every civilisation bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses ? " In this question it is a suffering Russian who speaks, but in America and in England there are...

...They have destroyed the upper classes, and resulted in accelerating the process of barbarization. But the ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid: Is it possible to extend a higher civil1zationto the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing...

...the end. Rostovtzeff ends by asking (p. 487) whether it is possible " to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing point" and whether every civilization is "bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses." He...

...They have destroyed the upper classes, and resulted in accelerating the process of barbarization. But the ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid. Is it possible to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing...

...disdain of mass culture. It concludes on a pessimistic note, citing the Russian scholar Rostovt/eff: "The ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid: Is it possible to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing...

...disdain of mass culture. It concludes on a pessimistic note, citing the Russian scholar Rostovt/eff: "The ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid: Is it possible to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing...

...modern democracy is a guarantee of continuous and uninterrupted progress ...? Is not every civilization bound to decay as soon as it begins to penetrate the masses?" The quotations in this paragraph are taken from the final pages of Rostovtzeff s social and economic history...

...Our civilization will not last unless it be a civilization not of one class, but of the masses. . But the ultimate problem remains like a ghost, ever present and unlaid: Is it possible to extend a higher civilization to the lower classes without debasing its standard and diluting its quality to the vanishing...