WHAT MY CRITICS WILL SAY. 



" TT 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 deterioration. 

 Where would be our inventors, our great 

 scholars, who devote their lives to incessant 

 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 him do so and perhaps thereby enable me 

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