“The salvation sought by the intellectual is always based on inner need, and hence it is at once more remote from life, more theoretical and more systematic than salvation from external distress, the quest for which is the characteristic of non-privileged classes . The intellectual seeks in various ways to endow his life with a pervasive meaning, and thus to find unity with himself, with his fellow men, and with the cosmos. As a consequence, there is a growing demand that the world and the total pattern of life be subject to an order that is significant and meaningful”