He believed that there were no longer any great differences between the poor and the rich in either extreme virtue or social depravation, nor in the intellectual privation and sublime intelligence that marked many ancient peoples, as seen, for example, in Homer's narratives.
Considera que ya no existen esas grandes diferencias entre miserables y ricos, ni entre virtudes extremas y depravación social, ni entre la privación intelectual y la inteligencia sublime que marcó a muchos de los pueblos antiguos, siguiendo, por ejemplo, los relatos homéricos.