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Walter Bagehot: Their imagination is bowed down; they feel they are not equal to the life which is revealed to them.

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Their imagination is bowed down; they feel they are not equal to the life which is revealed to them.
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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot reflects on how the grandeur of life displayed by the elite diminishes the self-worth of the common people.

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