It is because of them that the law of things does not rest on justice and the moral law.
If some of them are unconscious of it, no matter.

Neither does it matter that all of them do not always profit by the public's servitude, nor that some of them, sometimes, even happen to suffer from it.

They are none the less, all of them, by their solid coalition, material and moral, the defenders of lies above and delusion below.

These are the people who reign in the place of kings, or at the same time, here as everywhere.
Formerly I used to see a harmony of interests and ideals on all that festive, sunlit hill.

Now I see reality broken in two, as I did on my bed of pain.