clothing which consists entirely of separate pieces, and which is fit
only for separate occasions, and which is, therefore, unsuited to the
poor man. He has frock-coats, vests, pea-jackets, lacquered boots,
cloaks, shoes with French heels, garments that are chopped up into
bits to conform with the fashion, hunting-coats, travelling-coats,
and so on, which can only be used under conditions of existence far
removed from poverty. And his clothing also furnishes him with a
means of keeping at a distance from the poor. The same is the case,
and even more clearly, with his dwelling. In order that one may live
alone in ten rooms, it is indispensable that those who live ten in
one room should not see it. The richer a man is, the more difficult
is he of access; the more porters there are between him and people
who are not rich, the more impossible is it to conduct a poor man
over rugs, and seat him in a satin chair.

The case is the same with the means of locomotion. The peasant
driving in a cart, or a sledge, must be a very ill-tempered man when
he will not give a pedestrian a lift; and there is both room for this
and a possibility of doing it. But the richer the equipage, the
farther is a man from all possibility of giving a seat to any person
whatsoever. It is even said plainly, that the most stylish equipages
are those meant to hold only one person.

It is precisely the same thing with the manner of life which is
expressed by the word cleanliness.

Cleanliness! Who is there that does not know people, especially
women, who reckon this cleanliness in themselves as a great virtue?
and who is not acquainted with the devices of this cleanliness, which
know no bounds, when it can command the labor of others? Which of