A Classless Society
SIR,—Is not Lord Pethick-Lawrence's letter a little snobbish? He was friends with the railwayman, but the railwayman talked freely about
polities, religion, books, class, psychology," the subjects that interest a cultured man. If he had talked about trains, wages, food, football-pools, would Lord Pethick-Lawrence have felt so happy in his company?
There is still class in the country, but the real country gentleman and the real farm labourer are often friends, not because the labourer talks about politics, &c., but because the gentleman is interested in and talks With him about livestock and the land. Class distinction is no bar to friendship as long as there is common interest. Why should the interest have to be intellectual interest?—Yours faithfully, L. PRATT. Pert rtavy, Tavistock.
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