Essay(s) by Goldwin Smith
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"What Is Culpable Luxury?"
A phrase in a lecture on "The Labour Movement," published in the _Canadian Monthly_, has been the inconsiderable cause of a considerable controversy in the English press and notably of a paper by the eminent economist and moralist Mr. W.R. Greg, entitled "What is Culpable Luxury?" in the _Contemporary Review_.
The passage of the lecture in which the phrase occurred was: "Wealth, real wealth, has hardly as yet much reason to complain of any encroachment of the Labour Movement on its rights. When did it command such means and appliances of pleasure, such satisfaction for every appetite and every fancy, as it commands now? When did it rear such enchanted palaces of luxury as it is rearing in England at the present day? Well do I remember one of those palaces, the most conspicuous object for miles round. _Its lord was I dare say consuming the income of some six hundred of the poor labouring families round him_. The thought that you are spending on yourself
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