All those sonorous phrases about making mankind progress, while at the same time the progress-makers stand aloof from those whom they pretend to push onwards, are mere sophisms made up by minds anxious to shake off a fretting contradiction.
He critiques the disconnect between those who claim to promote progress and the people they neglect, calling it a contradiction.
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