cultured class
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America, unlike England, has no recognized cultured class, and has no aristocracy, so called, with which to keep mere rich men suitably miserable—at least a little humble and wistful.
From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Lee, Gerald Stanley
The nobles, on the other hand, and all the cultured class, are fermenting with great views and plans of social reform.
From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various
Shall they give place to dogmatic Christianity or, among the most cultured class, to agnosticism?
From The Reconciliation of Races and Religions by Cheyne, Thomas Kelly
He comes back to his former word 'ignorance,' bitter pill as it was for the Athenian cultured class to swallow.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander
This relation of the common people in Switzerland to the cultured class is assumed as the foundation for just such a relation in Russia.
From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
