...out another. But yet the state of public feeling disturbs me. Themiddle classes, cajoled and hribed for the last seventeen years by the Government, have...prevail among the lower classes, it may produce great ealamitdtt. And yet how can a Government be prevented from using corruption, when the nature of our...

...unstable besets them. As for myself, though not without alarm, I am less anxious ; I do not exaggerate our danger. I believe that our social edifice will continue...constituencies makes corruption so convenient, and our centralization makes it so easy ? The fact is that we are trying an experiment of which I cannot foresee...

...exaggerate our danger. I believe that our social edifice will continue to rest on its present hasis, because no one, even if he wish to change its foundation,...constituencies makes corruption so convenient, and onr centralization makes it so easy ? The fact is that we are trying an experiment of which I caunot...

..."treated government like a private business."76 "The middle classes," he writes Senior, have become a "little aristocracy, and without its higher feelings:...ashamed of being led by such a vulgar and corrupt aristocracy."77 Indeed, his letters reveal his reflexive, almost elemental, antipathy for bourgeois...