He despised these people as a class.

In his estimation, all creatures who worked for a living were branded with the obnoxious iron of socialism; he even went so far as to believe that they were, after a fashion, anarchists! His conception of anarchy was rather far-reaching; it took in everything that was contrary to his notion of a satisfactory distribution of wealth.

He believed that every man who worked for a wage was at heart an enemy to law and order.

He regarded the wage-earner as one whose hand is eternally against the employer, absolutely without honour, justice or reason.

The workingman was for self, always for self,--and to Landover that was anarchy.
The thought that people,--men and women,--of the lower classes possessed physical and mental qualities similar to those possessed by himself, even in a modified form, was not only repugnant to him but incredible.
They had none of the finer emotions,--such as love, for instance.