De Tocqueville does not mention the "sacrifice" an angry lord makes for his serfs and servants by throwing them off his land. It would destroy De Tocqueville"s argument to show that lords were hard, if not cruel at times, on their tenets. History has proven it. .

             De Tocqueville tries to justify the isolation of the aristocracy by claiming that it binds people together by "fixed positions one above another, the result is that each of them always sees a man above himself whose patronage is necessary to him, and below himself another man whose cooperation he may claim.". A community bound by social class is often referred to as a slaving society. The people at the bottom of this system are indebted to those above with nowhere else to turn. The man who is bound to another of a higher class is most likely to be exploited, for in an aristocratic society one has only the aristocrats to turn to for justice. Unfortunately, a man needs justice most when he is mistreated by the aristocracy. .

             The aristocracy is "closely attached to something placed out of their own sphere," is another idea that De Tocqueville had of the aristocracy. In reality, the aristocracy probably had very little to do with anything outside of their "sphere". He also claims that "they are often disposed to forget themselves.". If aristocrats thought about anything besides themselves, then perhaps they would have eased some of the suffering in the world. They could not know or care about anything that was not in their immediate world. It is unlikely that they would be so out of their "sphere" that they could have possibly known the poor man"s plight, or have cared. It does not hurt the aristocrat if families live on the street. .

             De Tocqueville concludes his avocation of an aristocratic system by discussing fellowship, " . . . the notion of human fellowship is faint and that men seldom think of sacrificing themselves for mankind; but often sacrifice themselves for other men.