Self-respect in America is bound up with improving ones status and fixed sumptuary laws are a denial of the very basis of our society. We are horrified by Tokugawa laws which stated that a farmer of one class could buy such and such a doll for his child and the farmer of another class could buy a different doll. In America, however, we get the same results by invoking a different sanction. We accept with no criticism the fact that the factory owners child has a set of electric trains and that the sharecroppers child contents with itself a corncob doll.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 23:44:54 +0000
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