2/ The ruling nobility's ideologists argued destroying their privileges would destroy civilisation, e.g. Count de Boulainvilliers in 1727.
Later, after the 1848 revolution, Gobineau wrote about the natural inequality of human races: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essa...
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