In a piece about a rowing club, he wrote with disgust about "the industrious upper class boys straining at their oars as if Caesar himself was watching".
It's from savers to speculators, from outsiders to insiders, and from the industrious middle class to the reckless, unproductive rich.
Within a few years, more than 400,000 persecuted Huguenots emigrated to England, Prussia, Holland, and America depriving France of its most industrious commercial class.
Again, the categories are subverted, as policies generally seen as rightwing – introducing university tuition fees; cutting benefits – are sold as redistributing money toward industrious working-class families.
The right-leaning popular press meanwhile carries daily exposés of what it regards as a growing army of feckless scroungers living on the backs of the industrious middle classes.
Marjorie Morningstar, novel by Herman Wouk, published in 1955, about a woman who rebels against the confining middle-class values of her industrious American Jewish family.
MacCarthy described Morris' lifestyle as being "late Victorian, mildly bohemian, but bourgeois", with Mackail commenting that he exhibited many of the traits of the bourgeois Victorian class: "industrious, honest, fair-minded up their lights, but unexpansive and unsympathetic".
If you are industrious, take good classes and not mediocre ones.
Democrats and union leaders were solidly behind the Exclusion Act, seeing as a threat to the white working class the industrious Chinese miners, grocery store owners, vegetable growers and traveling doctors who had populated the West.
With just a few vital reforms, it was always said, the country's industrious peasants and enterprising middle class would flourish again.
