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Des classes flexibles et mouvantes sont indispensables à une civilisation évoluante, mais, quand les classes deviennent des castes, quand les niveaux sociaux se pétrifient, le progrès de la stabilité se paye par une déperdition de l’initiative personnelle.
Flexible and shifting social classes are indispensable to an evolving civilization, but when class becomes caste, when social levels petrify, the enhancement of social stability is purchased by diminishment of personal initiative.
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