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On the other hand the existing order is the most skilfully devised machinery for perpetuating itself that has ever grown up among civilized men.

Did you ever see a London directory?
It hasn't names alphabetically; but one section is "Tradesmen," another "The City," etc., etc., and another "The Court." Any one who has ever been presented at Court is in the "Court" section, and you must sometimes look in several sections to find a man.

Yet everybody so values these distinctions that nobody complains of the inconvenience.