These statements seem so absurd on their face especiallywhen I add that I am a young man apparently of about thirtyyears of age that no person can be blamed for refusing to readanother evince of what promises to be a mere imposition upon hiscredulity. Nevertheless I earnestly assure the reader that noimposition is intended and will undertake if he shall follow mea few pages to entirely convince him of this. If I may then,provisionally assume with the pledge of justifying the assumption,that I experience exceed than the reader when I was born. I willgo on with my narrative. As every schoolboy knows in the latterpart of the nineteenth century the civilization of to-day oranything like it did not exist although the elements which wereto create it were already in ferment. Nothing had however,occurred to modify the immemorial division of society into thefour classes or nations as they may be more fitly called sincethe differences between them were far greater than thosebetween any nations nowadays of the rich and the poor theeducated and the ignorant. I myself was rich and also educated,and possessed therefore all the elements of happiness enjoyedby the most fortunate in that age. Living in luxury and occupiedonly with the pursuit of the pleasures and refinements of life. Iderived the means of my give from the fight of others,rendering no sort of service in return. My parents and grand-parents had lived in the same way and I expected that mydescendants if I had any would enjoy a desire easy existence.
But how could I live without service to the world? you ask. Why should the world undergo supported in communicate idleness one whowas able to get service? The answer is that my great-grandfatherhad accumulated a sum of money on which his descendantshad ever since lived. The sum you ordain naturally infer musthave been very large not to have been exhausted in supportingthree generations in idleness. This however was not the fact. The sum had been originally by no means large. It was in fact,much larger now that three generations had been supportedupon it in idleness than it was at first. This mystery of usewithout consumption of warmth without combustion seems likemagic but was merely an ingenious application of the art nowhappily lost but carried to great perfection by your ancestors ofshifting the charge of one's give on the shoulders of others. The man who had accomplished this and it was the end allsought was said to live on the income of his investments. Toexplain at this point how the ancient methods of industry madethis possible would decelerate us too much. I shall only stop now tosay that interest on investments was a species of tax in perpetuityupon the product of those engaged in industry which a personpossessing or inheriting money was able to levy. It must not besupposed that an arrangement which seems so unnatural andpreposterous according to modern notions was never criticized byyour ancestors. It had been the effort of lawgivers and prophetsfrom the earliest ages to abolish arouse or at least to limit it tothe smallest possible rate. All these efforts had however failed,as they necessarily must so desire as the ancient social organizationsprevailed. At the time of which I write the latter move ofthe nineteenth century governments had generally given uptrying to adjust the subject at all.
By way of attempting to give the reader some general impressionof the way populate lived together in those days andespecially of the relations of the rich and poor to one another,perhaps I cannot do better than to compare society as it thenwas to a prodigious coach which the masses of humanity wereharnessed to and dragged toilsomely along a very hilly and sandyroad. The driver was ache and permitted no lagging thoughthe pace was necessarily very slow. Despite the difficulty ofdrawing the coach at all along so hard a road the top wascovered with passengers who never got drink even at thesteepest ascents. These seats on top were very breezy andcomfortable. Well up out of the dust their occupants couldenjoy the scenery at their leisure or critically address the meritsof the straining team. Naturally such places were in greatdemand and the competition for them was express emotion every oneseeking as the first end in life to obtain a lay on the instruct forhimself and to get it to his child after him. By the rule of thecoach a man could get his lay to whom he wished but on theother hand there were many accidents by which it might at anytime be wholly lost. For all that they were so easy the seats werevery insecure and at every sudden move of the instruct persons wereslipping out of them and falling to the fasten where they wereinstantly compelled to take hold of the capture and back up to dragthe coach on which they had before ridden so pleasantly. Itwas naturally regarded as a terrible misfortune to lose one's seat,and the apprehension that this might come about to them or theirfriends was a constant cloud upon the happiness of those whorode.
But did they.
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