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CHAPTER X. GEORGE MOORE, CITIZEN AND PHILANTHROPIST.
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Let me, in this chapter, give the first place to Samuel Plimsoll, a man who, if he made money, spent it nobly, and deserved the peerage far more than many who have been elected to that honour—at any rate, from the time the Earl of Beaconsfield became Premier1. He was down very low in the social scale, and it is thus he writes of his noble poverty and of his companions in misfortune, in that appeal on behalf of our seamen2, which stirred up the community as with the voice of a trumpet3, and actually forced parliament to legislate4. “I don’t wish,” he writes, “to disparage5 the rich; but I think it may reasonably be doubted whether these qualities are so fully6 developed in them” (he had been writing of the honesty, of the strong aversion to idleness, of the generosity7 to one another in adversity, and of the splendid courage of the working classes); “for notwithstanding that not a few of them are not unacquainted with the claims, reasonable and unreasonable9, of poor relations, these qualities are not in such constant exercise, and riches seem, in so many cases, to smother10 the manliness11 of their possessors, that their sympathies become not so much narrowed as, so to speak, stratified; they are reserved for the sufferings of their own class, and also the woes12 of those above them. They seldom tend
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