Chapter 7

That class distinctions should be marked by insuperable barriers is a theory that amounts to a religion with O’Hagan. The _caste_ system of India is delightful to his exclusiveness. I think, between patricians and plebeians, he would like to erect a series of stone hedges. To the voice of Democracy he is deaf, and would have a governing body selected from the oldest families in the kingdom. “To-day,” he will declare, “there are many gentlemen externally indistinguishable from grocers’ assistants. I know dukes who l…