Footnote to the post titled “The Class Bias”

But even if classism is the best that human nature allows in terms of economic and political and social organization, it is nevertheless flawed and mistaken, as Spencer concedes. He wrote: “Habituated from childhood to the forms of subordination at present existing – regarding these as parts of a natural and permanent order – finding satisfaction in supremacy, and conveniences in the possession of authority; the regulators of all kinds remain unconscious that this system, made necessary as it is by the defects of existing human nature, brings round penalties on themselves as well as on those subordinate to them, and that its pervading theory of life is as mistaken as it is ignoble.”