# CH07.P032

Aristocracy is not an institution: aristocracy is a sin; generally a very venial one. It is merely the drift or slide of men into a sort of natural pomposity and praise of the powerful, which is the most easy and obvious affair in the world.

Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton, edition pg16769-r1. https://glosses.org/orthodoxy/pg16769-r1/CH07.P032/

## Annotations

- [The qualification in 'venial'](https://glosses.org/a/a_pzwinp5o/)
- [Aristocracy as a habit of deference](https://glosses.org/a/a_uymtxoe5/)