caste-lie

Updated: May 6, 2025

For, after all, the physical and intellectual superiority of the high-born is only preserved, as it was in the old Norman times, by the continual practical abnegation of the very caste-lie on which they pride themselves by continual renovation of their race, by intermarriage with the ranks below them.

Charles Kingsley - Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography