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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 24: on the natural disapproval of wealth (search)
d. No American family is so rich as the Rothschilds, whose nest is still shown-or was till lately — a tottering and shabby house in the Jewish quarter of Frankfort. Matthew Arnold, who shook his head over the comparatively moderate displays of wealth in this country, gloats with delight, in two letters, over the luxurious living of the English Rothschilds. But we all like to philosophize about luxury and give it advice-and all the more the less we share of it; just as it was said of Cardinal de Retz, that he made up for an utter neglect of his own soul by exercising an abundant supervision over the souls of other people. There is doubtless a great drawback on all the direct good done by great riches, although in many respects one has to recognize this good. Mr. Edward Atkinson thinks that all the Vanderbilt wealth is not, as such things go, too large a commission for its founder to have earned by the actual cheapening of the freight on each barrel of flour from the West to the
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
st he may feel, as I believe he does, how important it is that the triumphs of freedom should be joined with the triumphs of peace. His letter to the Foreign Minister, which I read after midnight, alone quite lifted me from my seat. . . . The National Assembly has an important task, which will require more calmness than is generally supposed to belong to the French character. Its vast size will enhance the difficulty. I wonder the provisional government did not think of the saying of Cardinal de Retz, that every assembly of more than one hundred becomes a mob. . . . It is obviously impossible to establish a property qualification; but may not France set the example of founding her republic on intelligence, by requiring that every voter shall read and write? . . . Have you considered whether the president or chief of the nation should be eligible for more than a single term? It is not always safe to argue front the state of things in our country; but I have sometimes thought that it