Jim Carroll

Quite simple. treat Walter Pardon..... as if they were normal human beings with valid opinions
Which is exactly what was done - not to the extent I would have wanted, as I have said elsewhere, but the definition was based on information received from such people.

But still a sharp dividing line between the gentry and the peasantry, the academics and the subjects of their study. Much as I hate to admit to agreeing with anything that Sweeney van Driver has said (or even having read it), but "But, get this, I appreciate the contribution of the collectors but I'm also under no illusions as to the contradictions inherent in elite members of one (superior) social class collecting the work of another (inferior) social class" makes a valid point.