From the second century onward they served as the intellectual aristocracy of the young religion.

Huxley was proud of his intellectual aristocracy.

Civilisations as yet have only been created and directed by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds.

"They are peculiarly and conspicuously the world's intellectual aristocracy."

Some of its members will presumably have brains, and thus they, at any rate, will be an intellectual aristocracy within the social one.

It seems possible that Annan's grand theory of the intellectual aristocracy is not based on the transmission of traits or behaviours, but on simple human fear.

The Americans were mostly New Englanders, members of an intellectual aristocracy that was already tightly knit.

It is significant, and ironic, that their twentieth-century successors were to define them as an 'intellectual aristocracy '.

While admiring the intellectual aristocracy of Europe, he grew up on the streets of Chicago, a full-bore democrat.

Although born into the intellectual aristocracy of Victorian Britain, Rose Macaulay came from one of its less distinguished branches.