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Excerpt from Duty of Giving Away: A Stated Proportion of Our Income
Of two persons having the same family and the same income, one lives in a large city, where rent, taxes, and provisions are high; the other in an agri cultural village, where these are all cheap. Is the latter to take the full advantage of his easier circum stances for his private purse, and give none of it to benevolence? This is the difference of locality.
Again, two persons have each five thousand a year. One from small beginnings has reached that point by industry and saving. Without hereditary claims, without public expectations, and with inva lnable habits of economy, he is royally rich on his five thousand a year. The other has inherited the same income from a father who was in the habit of spending fifty thousand a year. A number of servants, retainers, and tradespeople have what amounts to a vested interest in his revenue; the public have expectations; and, worst of all, his habits are formed on a costly model, so that he is not only perplexed, but really poor, with his five thousand a year. This is the difference of station.
Each of these three branches of modification has innumerable offshoots, going to show, that to require all who have equal incomes to give away equal sums, would be neither just nor generous.
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