The messenger in an office is not more intelligent than the clerks, not better educated, but worse; and yet the messenger is probably a very superior specimen of the newly enfranchised classes.
Bagehot compares the intelligence and education levels of messengers and clerks, suggesting a hierarchy among the newly enfranchised classes.
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