Author : William Hurrell Mallock
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Book Synopsis Aristocracy and Evolution; a Study of the Rights, the Origin, and the Social Functions of the Wealthier Classes by : William Hurrell Mallock
Download or read book Aristocracy and Evolution; a Study of the Rights, the Origin, and the Social Functions of the Wealthier Classes written by William Hurrell Mallock. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... THE MANY DEPENDENT ON THE FEW 249 sions plainly without realising that in some quarters B k m violent objections will be taken to them; nor is it difficult to see on what grounds the objections will rest. These shall accordingly be discussed in the next chapter; and it shall be shown that the conclusions to which our inquiry has brought *us thus far really contain in them nothing inconsistent with the sentiments, or incompatible with the- objects, of even those extreme reformers who will certainly feel impelled to attack them. CHAPTER III THE QUALITIES OF THE ORDINARY, AS OPPOSED TO THE GREAT, MAN je'cTid thauhe The objections which will be taken to the conconciusions elusion arrived at in the preceding chapter resolve reached in the ... or last chapter themselves into two groups, one of which rests on derogate from, * ., . ., ., the dignity of general and more or less sentimental consideraman verage tions, the other on practical. We will deal with the former first. This group of objections will, by those persons who entertain them, be probably first expressed in an outburst of fine indignation at the wrong which the conclusions just epitomised do to the average man; for such persons will at once take them as implying that the average man is a miserable and helpless creature with only enough intelligence to carry out blindly the orders which his betters are condescending enough to give him; and this implication will strike them as a wanton insult. They will think over various men in private and humble life who were never thought by themselves or others to be above the average level, but who yet were gifted with intelligence, MEANING OF TERM ORDINARY MAN 251 taste, and skill equal to any possessed by the men Book m who are...