Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class. The fund is a class fund, for the purpose of defraying all future class expenses; and by the liberality of the subscriptions is shown the interest that the each man takes in the future prosperity of all the under takings of his own class. It seems a very selfish way of looking at the matter for a man to consider only the amount of future benefit he expects to receive out of it himself, and to determine his subscription by the amount of food that he expects to eat and printing that he expects to read. Every man should...