As pointed out by José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) in his epoch-making work The Revolt of the Masses as (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 sympathies, and sympathizing with the exploited underclasses of Western Civilization, Ortega readily recognized the positive implications of this mass phenomenon for the people in general. At the same time,