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Curiously enough the class which in theory was omnipotent, was the only class financially ill-treated.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “Curiously enough the class which in theory was omnipotent, was the only class financially ill-treated.”
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Bagehot points out the irony that the theoretically powerful class was actually the most financially oppressed.
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