"There is no country in Europe, in which the condition of the labouring classes seems to us so hopeless as in that of England. This is not owing to the fact, that the aristocracy is less enlightened, more powerful, or more oppressive in England than elsewhere. The English labourer does not find his worst enemy in the nobility, but in the middling class. [...] Manfully have the British Commoners struggled against the old feudal aristocracy, and so successfully that they now constitute the dominant power in the state. To their struggles against the throne and the nobility is the English nation indebted for the liberty it so loudly boasts, and which, during the lasl half of the last century, so enraptured the friends of Humanity throughout Europe. But this class has done nothing for the labouring population, the real proletarii."