Aristocracies, those children of the established fact, are for epochs of concentration. In epochs of expansion, epochs such as that in which we now l… - Matthew Arnold

" "

Aristocracies, those children of the established fact, are for epochs of concentration. In epochs of expansion, epochs such as that in which we now live, epochs when always the warning voice is again heard: Now is the judgment of this world, — in such epochs aristocracies with their natural clinging to the established fact, their want of sense for the flux of things, for the inevitable transitoriness of all human institutions, are bewildered and helpless.