... reinforced. These changes in reading habits amongst the lower classes, with the moral transformation they implied, was a favourite theme of his autobiography: The poorer sort of farmers, and even the ... inaccurate: All above them in circumstances, calumniating them, classing them with the dissolute, the profligate, and the dishonest, from whom the character of the whole of the working people is ... not the habit for men to care for others beneath them in rank, and because they who employ them will probably never fail to look grudgingly on the pay they are compelled to give them for their...