Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.
To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.
Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.
A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.
Billions of dollars have been put into genetic research.
The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.
And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.
THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.
Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.