At the same time, he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others, were greedy and shameless puritans whom, in education, he esteemed inferior to the corner shoemaker.
The "decadents" were generally men of means but to a man despised the middle classes. The bourgeoise are always among their targets for scorn.
