With such as they he should by right of nature associate.
In his rebellion, he could not hate them.

He hated the malodorous rabble who stared insolently at them and who envied their immeasurable remoteness.

Of mere wealth he thought not; might he only be recognised by the gentle of birth and breeding for what he really was, and be rescued from the promiscuity of the vulgar! Yet at this time he was drawn into connection with the movement of popular Radicalism which revolts against religious respectability.
Inherited antipathy to all conventional forms of faith outweighed his other prejudices so far as to induce him to write savage papers for _The Liberator_.

Personal contact with artisan freethinkers was disgusting to him.

From the meeting of emancipated workmen he went away with scorn and detestation in his heart; but in the quiet of his lodgings he could sit down to aid their propaganda.