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Powell's lines, which he sug- gests as an "amendment" to Markham's interpretation of Millet's picture, were not included in the sermon as originally written, being found in ''The Literary Digest" a few days later. ] y — 9— life unwholesome and unhappy. There is a spiteful spirit abroad, which is but envy because others are able to be that which we would fain become: it is the envy of those who have j not which feeds the arrog-ance of those who have^ He who parades his wealth would take no pleas...ure therein if he did not know that others envied him. No man struts when he is alone. A millionaire starving- for bread v/ith others in mid-Africa, would lind no satisfaction in displaying- his diamonds for no one would covet them. The vulg-ar exhibitions of wealth show the ambitions of those raised sud- denly from a condition of want. The Bradley- Martins flaunt their wealth because it enables them to purchase the envy of those who court the oppor- tunity for precisely such display. Denunciations of the rich are uttered by those who are no whit better in spirit than the ones they denounce.
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