WHAT MY CRITICS WILL SAY 



IT is fortunate," said one of my friends to 

 whom I described my way of living, 

 "that all people do not think as you do, or the 

 world would stand still. If we were all to shun 

 the city, to go off hunting or oystering every 

 day, contenting ourselves with the unambitious 

 life you lead, there would be certain deteriora- 

 tion. Where would be our inventors, our 

 great scholars, who devote their lives to inces- 

 sant work, and our merchant princes, who never 

 miss a day in their counting-rooms, the men 

 who plan vast operations and make the country 

 rich and prosperous?" Of course this is the 

 common argument against any such scheme as 

 mine, and if a man enjoys the management of 

 vast commercial operations, if he likes to tele- 

 graph here and there to buy tons of lard at a 

 low price and telegraph elsewhere to sell them 

 at a high price, I am only too delighted to have 

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