We begin to understand the acceptance of this foolishness by considering that we live in a society where we may hear a treacherous monarch, or a malignant and lying politician, or a man who uses either official or literary power as an instrument of his private partiality or hatred, or a manufacturer who devises the falsification of wares, or a trader who deals in Virtueless seed-grains, praised or compassionated because of his excellent morals.
"Impressions of Theophrastus Such"
George Eliot