Grant was not blinded by his beliefs, recognizing full well that while he believed he deserved to rule, having been born of the upper classes, he lacked the power to effectively take over the Empire.

格兰特并未被自己的理念蒙蔽。虽然认定自己作为一名贵族理应治理帝国，但他也完全了解自己缺乏有效接管整个帝国所必需的力量。

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This started among the urban upper classes in northern Europe and over the course of the next 200 years filtered down to the rest of Western society.

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