Assertion: progress | /r/CapableOf | benefit the few
Facets:
value: at the expense of the many
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: And yet it may then be the mode to assert that the increase of wealth and the progress of science have benefited the few at the expense of the many, and to talk of the reign of Queen Victoria as the time when England was truly merry England, when all classes were bound together by brotherly sympathy, when the rich did not grind the faces of the poor, and when the poor did not envy the splendour of the rich.