If we look then only at what is peculiar to our age or characteristic of our age, we see hardly more than the interplay of mass taste with high-grade but strictly speaking unprincipled efficiency.

• 只需留心一下我们这个时代的独特性质，我们几乎只能看到一些雅俗不分、龙混杂的大杂烩，但在严格意义上说，都是一些没有道德原则的东西。