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We must read his biting diatribes against marriages for the sake of money or rank, and against the sacrifice of girls ; against the inequality of in- heritance and the envy of younger sons ; against the education of the nobles, and their traditionary in- solence; against the purchase of commissions in the 202 MODERN AUTHORS. BOOK v. army, the isolation of classes, the outrages on nature and family, invented by society and law. Behind this philosophy is shown a second gallery of portraits as ins...ulting as the first : for inequality, having corrupted the great men whom it exalts, corrupts the small men whom it degrades ; and the spectacle of envy or base- ness in the small, is as ugly as that of insolence or despotism in the great. According to Thackeray, English society is a compound of flatteries and intrigues, each striving to hoist himself up a step higher on the social ladder and to push back those who are climbing. To be received at court, to see one's name in the papers amongst a list of illustrious guests, to give a cup of tea at home to some stupid and bloated peer; such is the supreme limit of human ambition and felicity.
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