This slighter but more visible, and particularly more audible, category is made up of the "Intellectuals," as a late, and perhaps vulgar, designation would name them.
These are they who chiefly communicate with the world outside, and at the same time they do what is academically called thinking.

They are in intellectual contact and communication with the world at large, in a contact of give and take, and they think and talk in and about those concepts that go in under the caption of the humanities in the world at large.

The category is large enough to constitute an intellectual community, indeed a community of somewhat formidable magnitude, taken in absolute terms, although in percentages of the population at large their numbers will foot up to only an inconsiderable figure.

Their contact with the superior class spoken of above is fairly close, being a contact, in the main, of service on the one side and of control on the other.

With the populace their contact and communion is relatively slight, the give and take in the case being neither intimate nor far-reaching.