On the contrary, in the so called cultured classes, the believers in modern ideas, nothing is perhaps so repulsive as their lack of shame, the easy insolence of eye and hand with which they touch, taste, and finger everything; and it is possible that even yet there is more nobility of taste, and more tact for reverence among the people, among the lower classes of the people, especially among peasants, than among the newspaper reading of intellect, the cultured class.