As poiped out by José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) in his epoch-making work the Revolt of the Masses
World had witnessed the emergence of the common
(1929), during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the western World had witnessed the emergence of the common populace to a position of economic and political influence in human society.
Being essentially of republican and sympathizing with the exploited underclass of Western Civilization, Ortega readily recognized the positive implications of this mass phenomenon f the people in general.