vulgarizes

Updated: July 31, 2026

And so they, too, are thrown back upon themselves; upon their beer, their gin, and their fun. Now, then, you will understand what I meant by saying that our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower. And the greater the inequality the more marked is its bad action upon the middle and lower classes.

Matthew Arnold - Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold

Nearly a century of English control has only served to confirm these Asiatics in the thralldom of caste. How could it be otherwise when the ruling power is itself a slave to the same idea? Sir Matthew Arnold says: "Aristocracy now sets up in our country a false ideal, which materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, and brutalizes our lower class."

Maturin Murray Ballou - The Pearl of India