Middle class
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The rising social class of tradesmen, merchants, and professionals to which Bentham is said to belong in spirit.
And Bentham, though distinguished among his fellows by his genius, his enlightenment, and his zeal for the public good, belonged, to a far greater extent than he or his opponents perceived, in spirit no less than in position, to the middle classes.
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
Social class whose growing political influence and commercial activity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was associated with the emergence of modern commercial crises
As the growing influence of the middle-classes due to the extension of their political power was felt, and as the restrictions imposed by the elaborate balancing of interests in the feudal system slowly gave way before the spread of commerce and the widening of the local into a national market, the tendency to inflation followed by corresponding depression made itself manifest more clearly.