The Archive · 1921

ANDREW CARNEGIE

reactionary, he te': os, in un-|A0708t0cRarny or ANnpnew Caanecre. Willingness' to moi use of past (Constable. 25s. net.) experience or: read the lessons} Andrew Carnegie scarcely re-of history an@ apply them to the ceived justice from public opinion problems of to-day. We know that in the latter part of the career. in our country; credo erpertis.

His pontificationy upon the cul-Butler, again, bluntly tells! ture which he did not quite un-his friends there is no sense inj derstand provoked the irony of the appealing to foreign governments elect, and the industrial landscape toa treat -their subjects better (is; of Pittsburg was represented in a it Ireland he means, and people light disturbing to the admirers of like Governor Cox?), while no his philanthropy. His limitations effective steps are taken to pro-were allowed to obscure the genuine jfest twelve millions of negroes. moral figure which he presented—the States. In America, says Dr. that of a man who was not master-Butler ed by thie money he had made, but ready to spend it all upon the 21 million families occupy 19 ingenuous theories he had conceive million houses ed of human progress. The 6 million families own their sincerity of his idealism was own homes; shown by his heart-broken collapse 3 more million families have under the stroke of the Great them on mortgage; War. He had supposed strife to be the mero wanton creation of a 12 million people have bank "military caste," not realizing deposits, ete. that international harmony de-6} million farms are held; pends-upon a genuine identity of 8,000 public libraries exist. interest in many other regions. As Mrs. Carnegie tells us, he

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