ABSTRACT
The intellectual functions so far described are well enough recognized among the workers; but there are other functions of the intelligent less generally understood. The intellectuals, in this sense of the word, have a task to perform both within their own groups and in the community as a whole, but they cannot perform it by cutting themselves off from the group to which they belong or adopting a superior air. The self-appointed reformer often tells people what they ought to do without any knowledge of what they are actually doing which is often better than the reformer's proposal. All manual work is in some sense mental unless it becomes less than human, and then it should be abolished. There is no fundamental distinction of function or of life between the manual workers and the intellectuals unless we are to allow the name intellectual to the hangers-on in drawing-rooms and the superficial commentators on gossip.
