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Literary notes about classes (AI summary)

The term “classes” is employed in literature with remarkable versatility, serving as a marker for both social divisions and systematic categorizations across many fields. In works on social theory and history, "classes" often designates groups within society—such as the upper, middle, and lower classes—to discuss issues of power and inequality ([1], [2], [3]). On the other hand, authors like Darwin and Kant use the term to classify natural phenomena and abstract categories, illustrating patterns and orders in biology and philosophy ([4], [5], [6]). Additionally, the word appears in educational contexts, referring either to literal school classes or metaphorical groupings in cultural studies ([7], [8]). By employing “classes” in these diverse settings, literature reflects the layered ways in which human experience is organized and understood ([9], [10]).
  1. Moreover, he was the same towards people of the world and towards the lower classes.
    — from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  2. In our economically upper classes it causes discomfort, in our middle classes continual and grave anxieties, in our lower classes absolute despair.
    — from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl
  3. Why do the nobles look down upon the people? Because a nobleman will never be one of the lower classes.
    — from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  4. Throughout whole classes various structures are formed on the same pattern, and at a very early age the embryos closely resemble each other.
    — from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  5. Only organic beings of certain classes can be preserved in a fossil condition, at least in any great number.
    — from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  6. The former of these classes of categories I would entitle the mathematical, and the latter the dynamical categories.
    — from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
  7. " My days were filled with lectures, classes, interviews, and reunions with old friends.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  8. Well, I must go to the classes.
    — from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
  9. Now to which of these classes does temperance belong?
    — from The Republic of Plato by Plato
  10. His system has not been generally adopted, but the names of his classes have been taken as useful terms.
    — from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various

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