Then, again, do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my
obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell
thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent,
I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong. There is
a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for
them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities;
the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain
end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief
Societies; -- though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the
dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to
withhold.
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