Moral Overstrain
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" As a people, we have fairly good taste in our attitude toward the philanthropy which finds its root in fraud and unjust enrichment. If a traction magnate or a tricky financier gives us a hospital or art gallery, we do not cry in an offensive chorus, " Where did he get the money *? " We accept with a philosophic gratitude anything given back to us collectively which was stolen from us individually, for the excellent reason that, the ill-got- ten booty having been once acquired by the great ope...rator, it is a public good 102 GENEROSITY AND CORRUPTION fortune that his expenditure of it should in some degree take the form of pub- lic gift, rather than of private wassail or ostentatious extravagance. The great man, we say, was not obliged to spend anything on public charity. His fortune, by whatever devious, crooked ways ac- quired, is, so far as the legal title is con- cerned, his, and not ours ; and so any portion of it which he may choose to transmute into public service is a just cause for general rejoicing.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" As a people, we have fairly good taste in our attitude toward the philanthropy which finds its root in fraud and unjust enrichment. If a traction magnate or a tricky financier gives us a hospital or art gallery, we do not cry in an offensive chorus, " Where did he get the money *? " We accept with a philosophic gratitude anything given back to us collectively which was stolen from us individually, for the excellent reason that, the ill-got- ten booty having been once acquired by the great ope...rator, it is a public good 102 GENEROSITY AND CORRUPTION fortune that his expenditure of it should in some degree take the form of pub- lic gift, rather than of private wassail or ostentatious extravagance. The great man, we say, was not obliged to spend anything on public charity. His fortune, by whatever devious, crooked ways ac- quired, is, so far as the legal title is con- cerned, his, and not ours ; and so any portion of it which he may choose to transmute into public service is a just cause for general rejoicing.
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