Studies in conduct . XXVII. MIDDLE-CLASS MORALITY. ECENT transactions in the middle-class world furnish a striking and ex-ceedingly unpleasant comment uponl^£j that public morality of which theBriton talks so loudly and confidently. Take, forinstance, those dishonourable conspiracies on theLondon Stock Exchange against the stock of agiven bank or of a given railway company. Ortake the conduct of those who are implicated inthe London, Chatham, and Dover disclosures; forthough there may be a dispute as to the guiltypersons, there is no dispute possible as to the factthat somebody or other has be
Studies in conduct . XXVII. MIDDLE-CLASS MORALITY. ECENT transactions in the middle-class world furnish a striking and ex-ceedingly unpleasant comment uponl^£j that public morality of which theBriton talks so loudly and confidently. Take, forinstance, those dishonourable conspiracies on theLondon Stock Exchange against the stock of agiven bank or of a given railway company. Ortake the conduct of those who are implicated inthe London, Chatham, and Dover disclosures; forthough there may be a dispute as to the guiltypersons, there is no dispute possible as to the factthat somebody or other has been tricky, menda-cious, and fraudulent. Or take the unpatrioticmisdemeanours of the rich tradesmen, from Man-chester and elsewhere, who went about scatteringthe wages of their own and other peoples corrup- Middle-Class Morality. 267 tion in rotten boroughs. We can no longer settleall public iniquities by depositing them at the doorof a bloated and effete aristocracy. And if we al-low ourselves to go on calling the m
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