The Modern Man

"This amounts to saying that he [i.e. modern man] becomes scarcely more than what would be described in current language as ‘a body without a soul', and that in the most literal sense of the words. [..] the individual really no longer has any 'name' that belongs to him, because he is emptied of the qualities which that name should express; he is thus really 'anonymous', but in the inferior sense of the word.