The Coming of the Friars
The Coming of the Friars
and Other Historic Essays
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ed at his son's
excessive liberality and the consequences that might ensue from his
strange recklessness; it is even said that he turned him out of
doors; it seems that the commercial partnership was cancelled: it is
certain that the son was compelled to make some great renunciation of
wealth, and that his private means were seriously restricted. That a
man of business should be blind to the preciousness of money was a
sufficient proof then, as now, that he must be mad.
O ye wary men of the world, bristling with the shrewdest of maxims, bursting with the lessons of experience, ye of the cool heads and the cold grey eyes, ye whom the statesman loves, and the tradesman trusts, cautious, sagacious, prudent; when the rumbling of the earthquake tells us that the foundations of the earth are out of course, we must look for deliverance to other than you! A grain of enthusiasm is of mightier force than a million tons of wisdom such as yours; then when the hour of the great upheaval has arrived, and things can no l
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