Moral and physical balance and proportion were the ideas of the Spartans.

They would not have even been allowed to compete in the games, if they were misshapen.

And the analogy is, no one unfitted for a part ought to aspire to it, for the public good.

Any one has a right to scream, if he does not obtain it when he is fitted for it." "Yes, I see," said Lady Ethelrida.

"Then what do you mean when you say every class is trying to snatch something from some other class?
Do you mean from the class above it?
Or what?
Because unless we, for instance--technically speaking--snatched from the King from whom could we snatch ?" The financier smiled.
"I said purposely, 'some other class,' instead of 'some class above it,' for this reason: it is because a certain and ever-increasing number of your class, if I may say so, are snatching--not, indeed, from the King--but from all classes _beneath them_, manners and morals, and absence of tenue, and absence of pride--things for which their class was not fitted.