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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 18 (search)
it of the human race is Adam Smith's Wealth of nations, and that the same Adam Smith wrote a book on moral philosophy, which is now but little read. He therefore takes the former of Smith's books, not the latter, as his theme, and thus proceeds:-- I wonder how many among your number ever recall the fact that it has been the richest manufacturers who have clothed the naked at the least cost to them; that it is the great bonanza farmer who now feeds the hungry at the lowest price; that Vanderbilt achieved his great fortune by reducing the cost of moving a barrel of flour a thousand miles,from three dollars and fifty cents to less than seventy cents. This was the great work assigned to him, whether he knew it or not. His fortune was but an incident,--the main object, doubtless, to himself, but a trifling incident compared to what he saved others. Address before the Alumni of Andover, 1. He then goes on to show that whatever may be the tricks or wrongs of commerce, they lie on th