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 -   But the general level of these things, of
material and intellectual well-being - of beef, that is, and book
learning - Page 209
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But The General Level Of These Things, Of Material And Intellectual Well-Being - Of Beef, That Is, And Book Learning - Is No Doubt Infinitely Higher In A New American Than In An Old European Town.

Such an animal as a beggar is as much unknown as a mastodon.

Men out of work and in want are almost unknown. I do not say that there are none of the hardships of life - and to them I will come by-and-by - but want is not known as a hardship in these towns, nor is that dense ignorance in which so large a proportion of our town populations is still steeped. And then the town of 40,000 inhabitants is spread over a surface which would suffice in England for a city of four times the size. Our towns in England - and the towns, indeed, of Europe generally - have been built as they have been wanted. No aspiring ambition as to hundreds of thousands of people warmed the bosoms of their first founders. Two or three dozen men required habitations in the same locality, and clustered them together closely. Many such have failed and died out of the world's notice. Others have thriven, and houses have been packed on to houses, till London and Manchester, Dublin and Glasgow have been produced. Poor men have built, or have had built for them, wretched lanes, and rich men have erected grand palaces. From the nature of their beginnings such has, of necessity, been the manner of their creation.

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