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	Carnegie.Gospel of Wealth
		In monarchical countries, the estates and the greatest portion of the wealth are left to the first son, that the vanity of the parent may be gratified by the thought that his name and title are to descend to succeeding generations unimpaired.
		As to the second mode, that of leaving wealth at death for public uses, it may be said that this is only a means for the disposal of wealth, provided a man is content to wait until he is dead before it becomes of much good in the world.
		This policy would work powerfully to induce the rich man to attend to the administration of wealth during his life, which is the end that society should always have in view, as being that by far most fruitful for the people.
	www.swarthmore.edu /SocSci/rbannis1/AIH19th/Carnegie.html (3566 words)

	The Gospel of Wealth - Wikisource
		Pratt is the ideal disciple of the gospel of wealth.
		If any disciple of the gospel of wealth gives his favorite city large swimming and private baths, provided the municipality undertakes their management as a city affair, he will never be called to account for an improper use of the funds intrusted to him.
		The only point required by the gospel of wealth is that the surplus which accrues from time to time in the hands of a man should be administered by him in his own lifetime for that purpose which is seen by him, as trustee, to be best for the good of the people.
	en.wikisource.org /wiki/The_Gospel_of_Wealth (8513 words)

	Gospel of Wealth
		wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.
		of the wealth are left to the first son that the vanity of the parent may be gratified by the thought
		wealth during his life, which is the end that society should always have in view, as being that by
	www.uwm.edu /Course/448-440/gospel.htm (2789 words)

	Demythologizing the Gospel
		The gospel of Jesus Christ is the unifying theme of the New Testament and the foundation of the Christian faith.
		Jesus announced a gospel of the kingdom, and the early church proclaimed Jesus as the Savior who died for sinners and was raised to rule as Lord at God's right hand.
		The mistake of removing the substance of the kingdom from the earth to the ethereal space of heavenly dwellings is to disengage the conscience of the church from vital concerns of man's existence and limit the lordship of Christ to an inward religious experience.
	www.thepaulpage.com /Demyth.html (2387 words)

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		Pratt is the ideal disciple of the gospel of wealth.
		If any disciple of the gospel of wealth gives his favorite city large swimming and private baths, provided the municipality undertakes their management as a city affair, he will never be called to account for an improper use of the funds intrusted to him.
		The only point required by the gospel of wealth is that the surplus which accrues from time to time in the hands of a man should be administered by him in his own lifetime for that purpose which is seen by him, as trustee, to be best for the good of the people.
	www.etsu.edu /cas/history/docs/gospelwealth.htm (8436 words)

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		In the Gospel of the Wealth side, unequal wealth distribution is natural by the law of the survival of the fittest: however, they oppose to inherit wealth to their descendants.
		This implies unequal distribution of wealth and power is the necessary and urges the rich to endow libraries, hospitals, universities, etc. He was against the equal distribution of agrarianism by saying that it was a foe to thrift and activity, and encourages idleness and stagnation(464).
		Basically, critics of the Gospel of wealth sides do not accept that those virtues led to success because hard workers are often poor and patently bad men, the rich by inherited accumulate an enormous wealth in a real world.
	www.msu.edu /~jungjuye/wealth.htm (1258 words)

	FURMAN: ANDREW CARNEGIE, WEALTH
		It can be left to the families of the decedents; or it can be bequeathed for public purposes; or, finally, it can be administered during their lives by its possessors.
		the estates and the greatest portion of the wealth are left to the first son, that the vanity of the parent may be gratified by the thought that his name and title are to descend to succeeding generations unimpaired.
		So likewise in regard to the use or abuse of its surplus wealth, or to generous, freehanded coöperation in good public uses, or to unabated efforts to accumulate and hoard to the last, whether they administer or bequeath.
	alpha.furman.edu /~benson/docs/carnegie.htm (3512 words)

	Topic 9
		Choose two passages, one from William Lawrence, Relation of Wealth to Morals and one from Rauschenbusch's The Social Gospel that you think are most useful for comparing their different approaches to dealing with issues of modern life.
		The Gospel of Wealth, or sometimes the Gospel of Success, was the term for a notion promoted by many successful businessmen that their massive wealth was a social benefit for all.
		Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), one of the great financial giants of his era, published an essay titled The Gospel of Wealth in 1889, in which he argued that the accumulation of wealth was beneficial to society and the government should take no action to impede it.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /history/dfg/amrl/topic9.htm (1926 words)

	The Social Gospel
		In brief, the Social Gospel might best be defined as the antithesis to the culture of distributive injustice culminating in what financial giant Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) called The Gospel of Wealth in his 1889 essay by the same title.
		Since the dawn of human history, however, the age old ideas which eventually led to Carnegie’s gospel of wealth were and are much more concerned about the acquisition of personal wealth and power than with caring for those who are less fortunate.
		From then on even common people were free to actively pursue wealth; advancing beyond the social circumstances they were born into if possible; hoping their successes might denote God’s blessing upon them; arriving at the psychological point in western history where prosperity became viewed as God’s blessing and poverty as a curse.
	www.cliftonunitarian.com /toddstalks/socialgospel.htm (2824 words)

	Analyzing The Gospel Of Wealth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In Carnegie's essay "The Gospel of Wealth," it is arguable to see his discourse as an innocent sermon to get the rich to help the poor with their wealth.
		His belief in the administration of wealth is personally for him (and the wealthy) to secure his place among the rich and the influential.
		As a whole, Carnegie's motivation in bringing forward his idea of the distribution of wealth was not for the betterment of the general society, but rather to secure the wealthy of their riches and to be in control of the society's financial share of the economy.
	www.andrew.cmu.edu /user/yislahud/analysis.htm (2048 words)

	Andrew Carnegie
		To resolve what might seem to be contradictions between the creation of wealth, which Carnegie saw as proceeding from immutable social laws, and social provision he came up with the notion of the "gospel of wealth".
		Further, this concentration of wealth in the hands of a few was necessary for democracy and freedom to prevail and for the whole of society to be prosperous.
		Even the poorest can be made to see this, and to agree that great sums gathered by some of their fellowcitizens and spent for public purposes, from which the masses reap the principal benefit, are more valuable to them than if scattered among them through the course of many years in trifling amounts.
	www.ppl.nl /100years/carnegie/gospelofwealth.php (526 words)

	PlanetPapers - Andrew Carnegie on the Gospel of Wealth
		Since the wealth inevitably goes to a concentrated amount of people in the best possible set of circumstances, the question is what to do with the money in order to best serve the general public.
		This idea differs from communistic ideals of spreading wealth evenly throughout, at all times, and doesn't require an overthrow of the government, rather an "evolution of existing conditions." The idea is that each individual work for himself in attaining wealth (as in the concept of laissez-faire); each man fighting for his place, creating competition.
		In the end, there will still be a concentration of wealth in a few, but they will spread their wealth to the masses through public services, thus benefiting all, instead of money coming to all people in small increments as suggested by communistic ideas.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/41.php (1130 words)

	The Gospel of Wealth
		The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.
		In bestowing charity, the main consideration should be to help those who will help themselves; to provide part of the means by which those who desire to improve may do so; to give those who desire to rise the aids by which they may rise; to assist, but rarely or never to do all.
		The best minds will thus have reached a stage in the development of the race in which it is clearly seen that there is no mode of disposing of surplus wealth creditable to thoughtful and earnest men into whose hands it flows, save by using it year by year for the general good.
	members.aol.com /jparr53328/Carnegie.html (873 words)

	[corp-focus] Gospel of Work vs. Gospel of Wealth
		GOSPEL OF WORK VS. GOSPEL OF WEALTH By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman It was a company town.
		From the gospel of work to what Andrew Carnegie called the gospel of wealth.
		At the same time, there was a sense of the tremendous dignity of being a working person and creating the wealth of the country.
	lists.essential.org /pipermail/corp-focus/2006/000227.html (807 words)

	Free Andrew Carnegie MP3
		In 1889, he published an essay called "The Gospel of Wealth" in which he outlined his belief that wealthy people have an obligation to use the same skills they used to accumulate their wealth to give it away before they die in a way that does no harm to the recipient.
		The man of wealth must become a trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer.
		Such in my opinion is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined someday to solve the problems of the rich and the poor, to hasten the coming brotherhood of man, and at last to make our earth a heaven.
	www.poweraffirmations.com /carnegie-recording.htm (1911 words)

	The Gospel of Wealth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"The Gospel of Wealth" was an essay written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that described the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.
		Carnegie made it clear that the wealthy were responsible for the recirculation of their money back into society where it could be used to support the greater good.
		Carnegie put his philosophy into practice through a program of gifts to endow public libraries in cities and towns throughout the United States, with the idea that he was thus providing people with the tools to better themselves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Gospel_of_Wealth (510 words)

	The Wealth Report - WSJ.com : Giving While Living (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In his famous pamphlet “The Gospel of Wealth,” Andrew Carnegie urged the rich to give away their money while they were alive, rather than setting up perpetual foundations.
		The Wealth Report is a daily blog focused on the lives and culture of the wealthy.
		The blog is written by Robert Frank, a senior writer for the Wall Street Journal and the author of "Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich," to be published in June.
	blogs.wsj.com /wealth/2007/01/16/giving-while-living (812 words)

	FURMAN: ANDREW CARNEGIE, WEALTH
		It can be left to the families of the decedents; or it can be bequeathed for public purposes; or, finally, it can be administered during their lives by its possessors.
		the estates and the greatest portion of the wealth are left to the first son, that the vanity of the parent may be gratified by the thought that his name and title are to descend to succeeding generations unimpaired.
		So likewise in regard to the use or abuse of its surplus wealth, or to generous, freehanded coöperation in good public uses, or to unabated efforts to accumulate and hoard to the last, whether they administer or bequeath.
	facweb.furman.edu /~benson/docs/carnegie.htm (3512 words)

	The gospel of wealth has been the inspiration of people in the world. Since the human being got driven out of the Eden, ...
		Through observing the ideas wealth in early 19 century, I would like to interpret the gospel of wealth from my perspective.
		The gospel of wealth taught that everybody has an opportunity to become rich using individual talent and hard work.
		Producing wealth is capital, and thus the work of labor and capital, wealth goes on conquering the earth.
	www.msu.edu /~kimtaeeu/paper2.htm (1083 words)

	carnegie the gospel of wealth - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		carnegie AND the AND gospel AND of AND wealth
		In his essay "The Gospel of Wealth" Carnegie cited the biblical admonitions about the difficulties of the rich in entering the kingdom of heaven, and to...
		Carnegies essay "The Gospel of Wealth" (1889) set forth his idea that rich men are "trustees" of their wealth and should administer it for the...
	www.questia.com /search/carnegie-the-gospel-of-wealth (1417 words)

	Gospel of Wealth
		To resolve what might seem to be contradictions between the creation of wealth, which he saw as proceeding from immutable social laws, and his social conscience, he came up with the notion of the "gospel of wealth".
		In monarchial countries, the estates and the greatest portion of the wealth are left to the first son, that the vanity of the parent may be gratified by the thought that his name and title are to descend to succeeding generations unimpaired.
		{2)As to the second mode, that of leaving wealth at death for public uses, it may be said that this is only a means for the disposal of wealth, provided a man is content to wait until he is dead before it becomes of much good in the world.
	www.liberalslikechrist.org /about/carnegiegospelofwealth.html (1540 words)

	Bridging the Urban Landscape: Andrew Carnegie: A Tribute
		His vast wealth, produced by the sweat of "the toilers of Pittsburgh," he returned to the city he loved, to America, to Scotland, to England and to the world.
		Mine be it to have contributed to the enlightenment and the joys of the mind, to the things of the spirit, to all that tends to bring into the lives of the toilers of Pittsburgh sweetness and light.
		His legacy lives on in the hundreds and hundreds of libraries that his wealth made possible.
	www.clpgh.org /exhibit/carnegie.html (950 words)

	Gospel of Wealth
		This is not wealth, but only competence, which it should be the aim of all to acquire, and which it is for the best interests of society should be acquired.
		So likewise in regard to the use or abuse of its surplus wealth, or to generous, free handed cooperation in good public uses, or to unabated efforts to accumulate and hoard to the last, or whether they administer or bequeath.
		The best minds will thus have reached a stage in the development of the race in which it is clearly seen that there is no mode of disposing of surplus wealth creditable to thoughtful and earnest men into whose hands it cows, save by using it year by year for the general good.
	www.csuohio.edu /history/courses/Scarry/Scarryhis112/GospelofWealth.html (3639 words)

	American Passages - Unit 9. Social Realism: Context Activities
		According to the gospel of wealth, unrestrained capitalism will reward the best and most virtuous people, who will then use their fortune to benefit all of society.
		In accordance with the tenets of the gospel of wealth, many of these men gave tremendous sums of money to charity.
		What he espoused as the "Gospel of Wealth" was criticized by others as the cruel and unfettered capitalism of "Robber Barons." Though Rockefeller donated huge sums to charity, many felt this inadequately redressed the damage done during his acquisition of wealth.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit09/context_activ-1.html (1076 words)

	The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings - Andrew Carnegie - Penguin Classics
		Focusing on Carnegie's most famous essay, "The Gospel of Wealth," this book of his writings, published here together for the first time, demonstrates the late steel magnate's beliefs on wealth, poverty, the public good, and capitalism.
		Carnegie's commitment to ensuring and promoting the welfare of his fellow human beings through philanthropic deeds ranged from donations to universities and museums to establishing more than 2,500 public libraries in the English-speaking world, and he gave away more than $350 million toward those efforts during his lifetime.
		The Gospel of Wealth is an eloquent testament to the importance of charitable giving for the public good.
	us.penguinclassics.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143039891,00.html (142 words)

	Carnegie Speaks: A Recording of the Gospel of Wealth
		In his essay “Wealth,” published in the North American Review in 1889, industrialist Andrew Carnegie argued that individual capitalists were duty bound to play a broader cultural and social role and thus improve the world.
		Carnegie’s essay later became famous under the title “The Gospel of Wealth,” and in 1908, at age seventy-three, Andrew Carnegie recorded a portion of it under that title.
		But the millionaire will be but a trustee for the poor; entrusted for a season with a part of the increased wealth of the community, but administering it for the community far better than it did, or would have done, of itself.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5766 (576 words)

	Andrew Carnegie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His views on social subjects and the responsibilities which great wealth involved were already known from Triumphant Democracy (1886), and from his Gospel of Wealth (1889).
		Carnegie wrote The Gospel of Wealth, in which he stated his belief that the rich should use their wealth to help enrich society.
		In addition to Triumphant Democracy (1886), Gospel of Wealth (1900) and The Law of Success (1928), other publications by him were An American Four-in-hand in Britain (1883), Round the World (1884), The Empire of Business (1902), a Life of James Watt (1905) and Problems of To-day (1907).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Carnegie (5097 words)

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