If it be difficult for an aristocracy to prevent the people from getting the upper hand in the theatre, it will readily be understood that the people will be supreme there when democratic principles have crept into the laws and manners-when ranks are intermixed-when minds, as well as fortunes, are brought more nearly together-and when the upper class has lost, with its hereditary wealth, its power, its precedents, and its leisure.
Aristokraziari zaila gertatzen bazaio herria antzokian sar dadin eragoztea, erraz ulertuko da herria jaun eta jabe izango dela bertan, printzipio demokratikoak lege eta ohituretan sartu ondoren, gizarte-mailak nahastu egiten direnean, eta adimenak, aberastasunak bezalaxe, hurbildu egiten direnean, eta goi-klaseak, herentziazko aberastasunekin, bere boterea, tradizioak eta aisialdiak galtzen dituenean.