The judges were army officers full of caste-feeling and timorous of offending their superiors.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
Now, while I'm far from sure my superiors would be pleased to hear I'd said so much to you, there's one piece of advice I can offer.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Reforms of this character are naturally inspired by moral influences, by sentiments of justice or of humanity, by a feeling that wrong is being done to a class of the community who are placed in a situation of comparative weakness, inasmuch as they are deprived-whether through the force of circumstances or the selfish neglect of their superiors-of what public opinion recognises to be essential conditions of normal human existence.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae