161 With regard to the Anglican clergy, it may be observed that the
state church of England is almost entirely for the benefit of the
aristocracy, which sees its younger sons enter her “orders” all the
more gladly because their subsistence is thus provided for without
the patrimony of the head of the family being much diminished—the
children of the aristocracy thus aiding to maintain an institution
to which in a great measure its influence is owing. As to the German
Protestant clergy, they are neither so influential nor so respected
as the Anglican.