[Footnote 205-2: _Aristotle's_ view that, in a good state, the middle class should preponderate. (Polit. IV, 6, Sch.) _Sismondi_ says: _la richesse se réalise en jouissances; mais la jouissance de l'homme riche ne s'accroît pas avec ses richesses_. (Etudes sur l'Economie politique, 1837, I, 15.)] [Footnote 205-3: If state offices were to be filled by doctors or lawyers who live by their practice, after a time, only those could be had who had no large practice to sacrifice, that is, beginners or obscuranti.] [Footnote 205-4: Per contra, see _Bazard_, Doctrine de Saint Simon, 323. But _Sismondi_ is certainly right: _nous ne croyons point, que les hommes qui doivent servir à l'humanité de flambeau naissent le plus souvent au sein de la classe riche; mais elle seule les apprécie et a le loisir de jouir de leurs travaux_. (Etudes, I, 174.)] [Footnote 205-5: To appreciate the demoralizing effects of an income obtained without labor and without trouble on men of small culture, we need only witness the bourgeoisie at great watering places, pilgrimage places, seats of courts and university cities supported largely by students. Similarly at Mecca, Medina, Meschhed, Rome, etc. (_Ritter_, Erdkunde VIII, 295 seq. IX, 32), and even in Palestine, during the crusades, when the miserable Pullanes counted on the tribute of the pilgrims. (_Wilken_, VII, 369, according to _Jacob de Vitriaco_.)]