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Updated: May 6, 2025
Unless they would “pay,” he held back. “He would have nothing to do,” he declared, “with stock-jobbing speculations.” His refusal to sell his name to the schemes of the railway mania—his survey of the Spanish lines without remuneration—his offer to postpone his claim for payment from a poor company until their affairs became more prosperous—are instances of the unsordid spirit in which he acted.
Thus it was pleasant, at the openings of the Stephenson lines, to hear the chief engineers attributing the successful completion of the works to their able assistants; whilst the assistants, on the other hand, ascribed the glory to their chiefs. Mr. Stephenson, though a thrifty and frugal man, was essentially unsordid. His rugged path in early life made him careful of his resources.
Whatever adds grace to the daily lives of a people, and awakens in them a perception of the beauty of outward Nature and its healthful reaction on the nature of man, whatever tends to make toil unsordid, and to put it in relations of intelligent sympathy with the beautiful progression of the seasons, adds incalculably to the wealth of a country, though the increase may not appear in the Report of the Secretary of the Interior.
It sheds an effulgence upon youth, and throws a halo round age. It glorifies the present by the light it casts backward, and it lightens the future by the beams it casts forward. The love which is the outcome of esteem and admiration, has an elevating and purifying effect on the character. It tends to emancipate one from the slavery of self. It is altogether unsordid; itself is its only price.
What gave the subject an intense tenderness of unsordid interest was that it meant for the pair what so many thousands of paroled heroes and the women they loved and who loved them were hourly finding out that they were not such beggars, after all, but they might even there and then name their wedding day, which then and there they named.
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