The gentleman was left to walk the stage an impecunious eccentric, protected by a certain sentimentality but not longer understood. Europe, after the agony of the first World War, trend to the opposite type for leadership, to gangsters, who, though they were often good entrepreneurs, are without codes and without inhibitions. Such leaders in Europe have ben us a preview of what the collapse of values and the reign of specialization will produce. Weaver, Richard M., Ideas Have Consequences, p. 51.