This enjoyment of unselfish cognition infects all the more when you recognize the portrait of recent past in the description. Third, it is usually said, as if in compensation for rebuke for superstition and exhaustion, that such times of corruption are gentler and that cruelty declines drastically, compared with the old, stronger age which was more given to faith. But I don't concede this praise as well as the rebuke mentioned above. The need to somehow secure oneself against terrible fluctuation of happiness opens even more noble palms as soon as the powerful and the rich demonstrate readiness to pour gold into them. I mean the individuals, for they carry the seeds of the future and are the authors of the spiritual colonization and origin of new states and communities.
Corruption is merely a nasty word for the autumn of a people.
That all is correct and good in the theoretical sense. The rigid structure doesn't weigh upon anyone as long as it is made to measure and grows in a natural way, like a crystal. That's when it suits. But no one can state now that the process of redistributing property has come to the completion in this country, that it falls into the pattern of conflict-free development. No one would guarantee that the process of social stratification is complete and that the existing hierarchy suits the social classes.