Alternate hypothesis: the inferior man hates knowledge because "Yay knowledge!" is associated with people like Mencken, who go around calling people things like "inferior man" because they're poor and uneducated.
I understood the quote as speaking of those that are incapable of understanding rather than those who could be educated or walked through to understanding so I'm not sure why this would apply. He is definitely elitist but I've never heard of him scoff at the idea of talent coming from poverty. Also overall even people who are capable of such tought often carry culture and values that inhibit it and don't wish to change them no more than you want to change yours. When he speaks of the peasants or the city proletariat, he is speaking of a great mass of peop...
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