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distinguish them if their places had been changed. Nay
more, if a man had been able to sound their innermost
spirit, he would have discovered that these tiny barriers,
which divided people so much alike, appeared to the men
themselves as contrary alike to the public interest and to
good sense and that in theory they already adored unity.
Each of them stuck to his own particular condition simply
because every one else was particularized by his condition
but they were all ready to be confounded in one mass,
provided that no one had any separate position nor rose
superior to the common level.
Inseparable from the homogenizing of men and manners
in the literacy process was the equally pervasive concern with
consumer goods: