snobocracies

Updated: May 21, 2025

There are nations that will not fling away the empire of earth in order to slight an unknown man and insult a noble woman whose boots they are not fitted to unlatch. There are nations not blinded to Science, not given over hand and foot to effete snobocracies and Degenerate Decadents. In short, mark my words THERE ARE OTHER NATIONS!" This speech it was that particularly impressed Bert Smallways.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The War in the Air