Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… his conviction that God had created man as a sociable animal: ‘We are fram'd for mutual Kindness, good Will and Service, and therefore our Blessed Saviour has been pleased to give us […] the Command of Loving one another’. 4 This … them, as well as expected what would please them’. 14 ‘Good Breeding’ required ‘a Regard to Decency’ and disdain of vice. 15 The world of Mr Spectator was, despite the inclusion of the country gentleman De Coverley, an overwhelmingly … the influence of the House of Lords) saw only occasional room for the mass of the people on whose labour and service polite society rested. The subscribers of the 1712-13 edition were drawn from the ranks of the aristocracy, …
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