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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: which they began to play the idlers, and expected to take their old
wages without doing their old work.
But in any case, government by a ruling caste, whether of the
patriarchal or of the feudal kind, is no ideal or permanent state of
society. So far from it, it is but the first or second step out of
primeval savagery. For the more a ruling race becomes conscious of
its own duty, and not merely of its own power--the more it learns to
regard its peculiar gifts as entrusted to it for the good of men--so
much the more earnestly will it labour to raise the masses below to
its own level, by imparting to them its own light; and so will it
continually tend to abolish itself, by producing a general equality,
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