The landed gentleman, the yeoman, and the peasant have, none of them, habits or inclinations or experience which can lead them to any share in this the sole source of power and influence now left in France.
From his critique of the French Revolution, this passage laments the exclusion of traditional rural classes from the new sources of power and influence.
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