Wilde-

the brotherhood of man is no mere poet’s dream, it is the most depressing and humiliating reality.

We have come too far to encourage fraternity while continuing to maintain a distance with hoi polloi(the condition for a productive artistic output? In any case, whether artist is rich or poor, a degree of cocooning is required)

In the second half, Wilde is cursing the dumbing down effect that such equal mixing might lead to. Aristocratic republicanism of Nietzsche, elitism and appropriation of art