The Reign of Gilt
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The eminent Bishop of the Episcopalian diocese of New York has spent practically his whole life among people of wealth and fashion and their associates. He has made some brief excursions, but his social relations, his intimacies have been altogether with what Parton calls "the triumphant classes." He knows the plutocracy; his diocese lies in its stronghold, includes many of its most conspicuous and aggressive leaders both in making and spending money. There can be no question of his qualification to speak authoritatively of it, of its mode of living and thinking. He has said: "Hear a group of young girls whose fresh youth one would think ought, in the matter of their most tender and sacred affection, to be as free from sordid instinct as from the taint of a godless cynicism. You will find that they have their price, and are not to be had without it any more than a Circassian slave in the market of Bagdad."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:3368928600
ISBN13:9783368928605
Release Date:September 2023
Publisher:Outlook Verlag
Length:116 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"
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