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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: nothing but envy and contempt.
Meanwhile, behind all classes and social forces--I had almost said,
above them all--stands a fourth estate, which will, ultimately,
decide the form which English society is to take: a Press as
different from the literary class of the Ancien Regime as is
everything else English; and different in this--that it is free.
The French Revolution, like every revolution (it seems to me) which
has convulsed the nations of Europe for the last eighty years, was
caused immediately--whatever may have been its more remote causes--
by the suppression of thought; or, at least, by a sense of wrong
among those who thought. A country where every man, be he fool or
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