Modern emancipation has really been a new persecution of the Common
Man. If it has emancipated anybody, it has in rather special and narrow ways
emancipated the Uncommon Man. It has given an eccentric sort of liberty to some
of the hobbies of the wealthy, and occasionally to some of the more humane
lunacies of the cultured. The only thing that it has forbidden is common sense,
as it would have been understood by the common people.
G.K. Chesterton: The Common Man.
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