‘Intellectual Classes’ Degrade Those They Should Protect and Guide

“Those ‘intellectual classes,’ reacting upon the ignorant masses which they attract and which look up to them as noble and fit examples to follow, degrade and morally ruin those they ought to protect and guide.” (Mahachohan. In C. Jinarajadasa, editor. Letters from the Master of the Wisdom, 1st Series, letter n. 1, p. 4; emphasis added)