There must always be rich and poor, when a great community are herded together. As a rule, the extreme poor are a worthless lot. Of course, I have never been outside Tredowen, where everyone was contented and happy in their way, and it seems terrible to me just at first. This is a world for individual effort. No man is strong enough to carry even a single one of his fellows upon his shoulders.
Charity is the most illogical and pernicious of all weaknesses.
I mean men like that Mr. Wingrave, the American who has come to England to spend all his millions. And yet he will not give one penny away. He gives nothing to the hospitals, nothing to the poor. Wingrave smiled grimly. And as for hospitals, Mr. Wingrave probably thinks, like a good many more, that they should be state endowed.