Such a view would doubtless be almost wholly erroneous.

It is not that the Intellectuals reached a substantially superior pitch of exaltation, but only that, being trained in the use of language, they were able to express their emotions with great facility.

There seems no reason to believe that the populace fell short of the same measure in respect of their prevalent frame of mind.
To return to the workings of the Imperial dynastic State and the forces engaged.

It plainly appears that the Intellectuals are to be counted as supernumeraries, except so far as they serve as an instrument of publicity and indoctrination in the hands of the discretionary authorities.

The working factors in the case are the dynastic organisation of control, direction and emolument, and the populace at large by use of whose substance the traffic in dynastic ascendancy and emolument is carried on.