Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 5 of 5
How this happens, it is not difficult to see. We have no aristocracy of blood, and having therefore as a natural, and indeed as an inevitable thing, fash ioned for ourselves an aristocracy of dollars, the dis play of wealth has here to take the place and per form the office of the heraldic display in monarchial countries. By a transition readily understood, and which might have been as readily foreseen, we have been brought to merge in simple'show our notions of taste itself.
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