At any moment the rich may say, "Very well, then, we won't trust them," and bang the door in his face.

On the basis of Mr.Blatchford's view of heredity and environment, the case for the aristocracy is quite overwhelming.

If clean homes and clean air make clean souls, why not give the power (for the present at any rate) to those who undoubtedly have the clean air?
If better conditions will make the poor more fit to govern themselves, why should not better conditions already make the rich more fit to govern them?
On the ordinary environment argument the matter is fairly manifest.

The comfortable class must be merely our vanguard in Utopia.
Is there any answer to the proposition that those who have had the best opportunities will probably be our best guides?
Is there any answer to the argument that those who have breathed clean air had better decide for those who have breathed foul?
As far as I know, there is only one answer, and that answer is Christianity.

Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich.