“Life-expectancies of lower-class and upper-class [vary] …society determines how long and in what manner the individual organism shall live…”
1991, p. 202
The Social Construction of Reality, 1966
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"Mixed Essays, Equality" (1879)
Source: The Lost Plot (2017), Chapter 17 (p. 215)

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters

What is Art? (1897)
Context: In the upper, rich, more educated classes of European society doubt arose as to the truth of that understanding of life which was expressed by Church Christianity. When, after the Crusades and the maximum development of papal power and its abuses, people of the rich classes became acquainted with the wisdom of the classics and saw, on the one hand, the reasonable lucidity of the teachings of the ancient sages, and on the other hand, the incompatibility of the Church doctrine with the teaching of Christ, they found it impossible to continue to believe the Church teaching.

“The icon and the idol determine two manners of being for beings, not two classes of beings.”
Source: God Without Being (1982), p. 8

As quoted in http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedkar/txt_ambedkar_salvation.html