He is probably a Jewish
syndicate. Such being the case, I cannot bring myself to reverence
Monsieur Cadillac and his cars. They are comfortable, but that factor
of authority, which compels our homage to the Eros, is wholly lacking.
Yet both things are called beautiful. That we should apply the same
word to products so different, so hopelessly conflicting, as those of
Praxiteles and Monsieur Cadillac--what does it prove? It proves our
poverty of invention. And what does it explain? It explains our
confusion of thought."
The millionaire remarked:
"I suppose the human outlook has shifted with the years. Democracy hyas
changed your old point of view."
"Assuredly. No American, no modern of any race, I fancy, can divest
himself of the notion that one man is as good as another; in the eyes
of God, they add--meaning in their own eyes. No Greek, no ancient of any
race, I fancy, could have burdened himself with so preposterous a
delusion. Democracy has killed my point of view. It has substituted
progress for civilization.
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