Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from To Whom Much Is Given
Considerable careful inquiry has shown that the working people, quite as often as the rich, approve of lavish outlay. Probably two-thirds of the people in the nation approve or condone the expenditure of several millions on a certain palace in a southern state which, it is said, requires the con stant attendance of seventy servants. Probably millions of our people would like to own a similar one and, if they could, would like to spend twenty-five thousand dollars a year on their wardrobe as a certain New York society woman boasts of doing.
Col. T. W. Higginson relates that when he was a boy there was only one millionaire in the state of Massachusetts, and he and his mates used to wonder how it was possible for any one man to own such an incredible sum. What could he do with so much? The thought of it filled them with awe.
Now we see men who count their millions by the score and whose annual income is enough to endow a university. Expensive living 15 the order of the day and has become, as a Boston writer well puts it, the blight on America.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
