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"It's not the way things are done or can be done at present, though there is more altruism in business than most people think. Even we financiers " "I know you subscribe to charity," I said, "largely, enormously." "That's not what I mean," said Ascher. "But we need not go into that. I believe that business is not philanthropy, finance is not altruism." "Then why ?" I said.
He reached out his hand, took the folded paper gently from Richling, crossed his knees, and, resting his elbows on them and shaking the paper in a prefatory way, spoke: "Richling, in old times we used to go into monasteries; now we subscribe to orphan asylums.
If it is not the work of some of the younger hands, the school has levelled on minors. In any case it shows the school is healthy. 'I subscribe, said Mrs. Lawrence. 'The little girl aged six shall have something done for her, said Aminta, and turned her eyes on the earl. He was familiar with her thrilled voice at a story of bravery. He said 'The boys don't say the girl's brother turned tail.
By extraordinary exertions Brother Jones-thinking a handsome new church would be an ornament to the town and increase the value of real estate-had got two brethren, who desired to remain incog., to subscribe: "Christian" 2000 dollars, and "Philanthropist" 1000 dollars. Would my friend kindly help along a struggling congregation? My friend would.
For all that, the general desire for a high level of production will largely depend upon the fulfillment of that intention. The wage earners will only continue to subscribe to a doctrine of high production if they trust to the action of the distributive mechanism to bring them a fair share of the resulting product. Here we are at the very storm center of socialist economics.
Few of the parishioners would subscribe, with the exception of some of the principal tradesmen, who hoped to do business with the new establishment, Mr Rowe, an apothecary, who expected to be employed as medical attendant, and the solicitor who had been engaged in making the legal arrangements.
I paid him according to the rate given to the best Paris physicians, and I requested him to visit us every morning and every evening. I took the precaution to subscribe to no other newspaper than the Moniteur.
"Coming to some maturity of years, and perceiving what tyranny had invaded in the Church, that he who would take orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which unless he took with a conscience that would retch he must either straight perjure or split his faith, I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking, bought and begun with servitude and forswearing."
At that very time, however, thirty-four shops were closed in Constantinople, and their former occupants were forcibly kept from resuming their business, merely because they did not subscribe to the Patriarch's creed. This was all, however, under the pretense of law. The Patriarch was the civil head of the Armenian community, and as such was responsible to the government for every trade.
When such is done, it is done from enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is never useful." "What ought a man to do, then, for the assistance of such fellow-creatures as this poor girl?" asked the Vicar. "There are penitentiaries and reformatories, and it is well, no doubt, to subscribe to them," said the Prebendary. "The subject is so full of difficulty that one should not touch it rashly.
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