These comments are written, not to scold, or complain, or suggest, but simply to express wonder.
What man of millions does anything that a white rabbit does not do?
One man—of a hundred millions at least—has become recently very conspicuous among his golden fellows.
How?
By undertaking a scheme to irrigate the desert of Sahara and give millions of fertile acres to humanity?
No.
By calling together, at his expense, the ablest thinkers of the world to discuss and to solve, if possible, the social questions that so deeply concern the millionaire's future?
No.
By seeking, through study and experiment, to abolish child-labor, to promote public education, to encourage science art or American inventiveness?
No.