Show the englun ux we believe that the english who an in continental opinion a nation of shopkeepers are not cot by instinct or by aspiration a trading people at all cr even an industrial one they are a seafaring people by tendency and as the sea produces nothing they are compelled to trade and circumstances have driven them into the industrial life ant their proclivity is toward struggle straggle of any kind and not except as an incident in ia that struggle toward the making of money it was quite late in their history that they recognized trading ZA aa their vocation cation yo and much later still that thai they surrendered the notion that to bs be a trader whether inex merchant chant or manufacturer or dealer in money was to be comparatively abase a base person till within the last few years all fistori historians 2 thought economics rather unworthy v subjects of their pens pees and the sock A distinctions drawn against industry were of the most galling chr character arter indeed they have not disappeared yet th contempt which was once felt feit jor for tha merchant and the banker being still entertained for the distributor di though he often combines both function the great industrial is still hardly reckoned on a par with the great agriculturist i and the shopkeeper of any kind is still placed far below any sort of professional money it is true is now cow almost the only source of irresponsible power and those who possess it t begin aike the powerful in all countries and ages tra 0 o he be highly regarded but the grandson grauds on of a tottenham court road pw pear would much rather his peerage had bad been acquired in battle or by chicane than out of a shop however large even evec the captains of industry who are like the old 63 barons in many respects respect 4 are not thought of as quite their equals and the greater grea teFt of railway builders say eay the late laste mr Bras brassey is ia not placed on CD the level of a great agriculturist say the late mr cc coke ice of norfolk the state has honored both but the tho popular sentiment which and d not the state settles what wha dreeka tire are like cc condones aidones rather than deli delights glita in the action off of the state the different dilfer ewa Is disappearing but it dies hard bard leador spectator |