Selective cosmopolitan universities: Eliot studied at Harvard and and Oxford. Tied to a place: born in St. Louis, schooled in Cambridge, resided most of his adu

Selective cosmopolitan universities: Eliot studied at Harvard and and Oxford. Tied to a place: born in St. Louis, schooled in Cambridge, resided most of his adult life in London. It seems to me that he was an outsider, however well thought of he was in England. "Levelers seek to destroy the stratification of class, and with it the integral life of the nuclear family and local community." Not clear: does the integral life of the nuclear family and the local community depend on stratification? It is very possible to end up with one stratum at the bottom that finds it hard to afford the nuclear family, and one at top that revels in serial monogamy.