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a multitude. So likewise the man who wishes to rise 

 by wronging others must by right be contrasted, not 

 with the man who likewise wishes to do wrong, 

 though to a different set of people, but with the man 

 who wishes to do justice to all people and to wrong 

 none. 



The line of cleavage between good and bad citizen- 

 ship lies, not between the man of wealth who acts 

 squarely by his fellows and the man who seeks each 

 day's wage by that day's work, wronging no one 

 and doing his duty by his neighbor; nor yet does 

 this line of cleavage divide the unscrupulous wealthy 

 man who exploits others in his own interest, from 

 the demagogue, or from the sullen and envious being 

 who wishes to attack all men of property, whether 

 they do well or ill. On the contrary, the line of 

 cleavage between good citizenship and bad citizen- 

 ship separates the rich man who does well from the 

 rich man who does ill, the poor man of good "con- 

 duct from the poor man of bad conduct. This line 

 of cleavage lies at right angles to any such arbitrary 

 line of division as that separating one class from an- 

 other, one locality from another, or men with a 

 certain degree of property from those of a less 'de- 

 gree of property. 



The good citizen is the man who, whatever his 

 wealth or his poverty, strives manfully to do his 

 duty to himself, to his family, to his neighbor, to 

 the State; who is incapable of the baseness which 

 manifests itself either in arrogance or in envy, but 

 who while demanding justice for himself is no less 



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