Think that is the problem with reviewing the classics nowadays. People are so busy inserting the modern era thinking into the older views and marring what values may lie in the admittedly backwards thinking of that era. Yes, it was politically incorrect for OUR time. But in their time, a lot of writers and thinkers were revolutionary and to apologize for them not being up to our speed and belittling their contributions is not only insulting to modern readers, but insulting to the progressives of that time.