“Charging commercial institutions with failure to educate public taste is an indulgence from which intellectuals will only be deterred when they grasp that a non-existant contract can be neither breached nor enforced. If commerce is to be indicted for anything, it can only be for commercialism, and whether that is a crime or not is a political question.” Impoverished ThoughtDebilitated Taste Book:Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Audience Source: Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Audience