text:  Can any thing be more illiberal more ignorant more stupid than for a low man to turn leveller because he is a low man and attack without ceremony and without mercy people of whom he can by any possibility know no more than the worst side that is to say the _outside_: and whom he considers like the gilt gingerbread he sees in his biennial visit to Greenwich Fair as vastly fine but exceedingly unwholesome? The truth is fashionable life has been exalted above its just and proper level and depressed below it by the slaverers and the vituperaters solely because they cannot get at it; the former are idolatrous from hope the latter devilish in despair; and the result we are familiar with in caricatures portraying this sort of life alternately as a Heaven and a Hell