“Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.”
"Mixed Essays, Equality" (1879)
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“The late Middle Ages not merely has a successful middle class—it is in fact a middle-class period.”
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Human Selection, Popular Science Monthly, volume 38 (November 1890) page 93.
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Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)