Men And Manners in America
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In the former city, the vicissitudes of trade, the growth and dissipation of opulence, are far more rapid. Rich men spring up like mushrooms. Fortunes are made and lost by a single speculation. A man may go to bed at night worth less than nothing, and pull off his nightcap in the morning with some hun- dred thousand dollars waiting his acceptance. There is comparatively no settled and permanent body of leading capitalists, and, consequently, less room for that sort of defensive league which nat...urally takes place among men of common interests and position in society.
In Philadelphia, on the other hand, the pursuits of commerce are confined within narrower limits. There is no field for speculation on a great scale, and the regu- lar trade of the place is engrossed by old-established houses, which enjoy a sort of prescriptive confidence, against which, younger establishments, however respec- table, find it in vain to contend. The keener, and more enterprising traders, therefore, generally remove to New York, and Philadelphia continues comparatively untrou- bled by those fluctuations of wealth, which impede any permanent and effective union among its aristocracy.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In the former city, the vicissitudes of trade, the growth and dissipation of opulence, are far more rapid. Rich men spring up like mushrooms. Fortunes are made and lost by a single speculation. A man may go to bed at night worth less than nothing, and pull off his nightcap in the morning with some hun- dred thousand dollars waiting his acceptance. There is comparatively no settled and permanent body of leading capitalists, and, consequently, less room for that sort of defensive league which nat...urally takes place among men of common interests and position in society.
In Philadelphia, on the other hand, the pursuits of commerce are confined within narrower limits. There is no field for speculation on a great scale, and the regu- lar trade of the place is engrossed by old-established houses, which enjoy a sort of prescriptive confidence, against which, younger establishments, however respec- table, find it in vain to contend. The keener, and more enterprising traders, therefore, generally remove to New York, and Philadelphia continues comparatively untrou- bled by those fluctuations of wealth, which impede any permanent and effective union among its aristocracy.
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