| Show ruil full lureca curses and kind hind hearts it is not in in human nature to be just and humano when robbed of its duo due experience of af sites es fu fundamental conditions whatever aar narrows rollS a mans experience narrows his sympathies pa thies and whatever confers on him irresponsible I 1 pon sible power tempts him lir to abuse it sow now riches do both these things whatever me exceptional optional experience they may they certainly withdraw their owners from much that must always enter into the life of the largo large majority of human kind those these must always anxiously labor and be content with mth moderate means between life conditioned in this way and life free from labor ind anxiety there is fixed a gulf which sympathy could hardly cross even if it would for or it is chained on the one side by pride and an 11 the other by envy sometimes indeed if a man lias ims risen to riches by his own efforts he be may so tar far remember his life of poverty as to retain a certain sympathy tor for those vs horn he has left behind him in it but this is rare for three reasons first men lien caring enough tor for riches to be willing to devote much time to the acquisition laisi tion of them are usually of a somewhat low material and unsympathetic apathetic mpa nature natum second in their ascent to riches after the erst arst few steps they have to use other men as aa stepping atones for no man unless lie he have a monopoly talent like raphael can rise to riches otherwise nearly all great fortunes iro made up of profits caught in labor traps sueh such using of other men solely as means leads to forgetfulness forgett ulness that they are ends hardens the heart and destroys sympathy rhind men who havo have made their ONN own 11 fortunes unes self made men as they are wisely sailed have usually a great deal of respect for or their makers maker and a proportionate contempt tempt for those who having less cunning than themselves have remained in the ranks lf poverty thus it frequently happens that elf made men are among tho the least humane at A aristocrats and the caso case is even worse with irith their children and andi with all persons born io 0 wealth these lack altogether tho the export MICO aneo that would enable them to sympathize frith tho the ordinary natural human life of labor and narrow means raised above it they cannot comprehend it professor rhomas davidson in the forum |
