“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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English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector… 1822–1888

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