Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 3 of 3: As Represented in the Pictures and Engravings of the Time
The middle classes, glad at heart that the soldiery were at hand to protect their property, that throne and altar still existed as guarantees for the safety of the purse, could not get rid so quickly of their former obligations, and the unavoidable dishonesty consequent on the lack of correspondence between their actions and their supposed principles, the essential mean ness of their position, which became increasingly apparent, crippled their power. Everyone had grown convinced that might was right, that might was more than right, and that those who were not on the side Of might were liable to arbitrary imprisonment under the leads of the Bastille, on the Spielberg, or in the fortress of Peter and Paul; was it ever possible for the weak to Obtain justice from the strong?
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