“In the formation of civil societies, as in any historical process, a certain sediment is inevitable, in which units that stand out from the general forms of life accumulate, just as in a chemical process particles incapable of chemical combination are deposited on the walls of a vessel. The volume and malignancy of such sediment usually increase during periods of general fermentation, when the problems proposed for solution shake the social mass and disrupt the calm balance in which it has remained for many years. In such eras, under the visible, historically formed social layers, a special underground layer accumulates, usually hostile to the social organism that has settled above it, and in any case completely alien to the historical forms of life, next to which it accumulated in the darkness, representing a pathological growth on the living body..."