ROBERT S. MORISON 



the fact that St. Peter's was constructed largely from profits 

 on the sale of indulgences and Versailles from taxes ground 

 from the poor French peasant. No wonder pride has acquired 

 a bad name, but its long-term results may not be so bad after 

 all. Contrary to Marc Antony's contention, the good that men 

 do sometimes lives after them and the evil, though not perhaps 

 immediately interred with their bones, may be resolved in some 

 less dramatic way. Thus St. Peter's still stands to delight the 

 eye and inspire the spirit long after the sale of indulgences 

 disappeared in the reforms of Luther and John Knox. Versailles 

 has repaid the population of France many times over in tourist 

 gold alone, while the excesses involved in its financing led 

 directly to the establishment of liberte, egalite, and fraternite 

 in one of Europe's first democracies. 



Perhaps it would be worth while for us in the twentieth 

 century to recognize that pride does have its good points, that 

 it need not always go before a fall, that it can stimulate us to 

 higher things. We may also take comfort from the fact that 

 drastic changes in our social and economic structure serve to 

 protect society from the worst effects of personal pride and 

 greed. 



Individual achievement need no longer rely for its support 

 on money wrung from wretched peasants and sinners. The mil- 

 lions of Americans who voluntarilv contributed their dimes to 

 research on polio and heart disease may properly enjoy a quiet 

 pride in having helped fellow Americans to outstanding scien- 

 tific achievements; and the individual recipients may rest 

 easier in the thought that their support was freely and hope- 

 fully given. 



It must be confessed that the emphasis given to pride in 

 the foregoing definition of philanthropy is not entirely in accord 

 with traditional practice or indeed with its dictionary meaning. 

 Nevertheless, the original Greek carries no necessary implica- 



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