non-servile

Updated: May 26, 2025

It began neither serf nor lord, but burgher and farmer; it followed the normal development of the middle class under Progress everywhere and became capitalistic. The huge later immigration has converged upon the great industrial centres and added merely a vast non-servile element of employees to the scheme. America has been and still very largely is a one-class country.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - An Englishman Looks at the World