[The Doings Of Raffles Haw by Arthur Conan Doyle]@TWC D-Link bookThe Doings Of Raffles Haw CHAPTER VIII 11/23
I don't think there is much room for expansion in that direction." "Well, really you have done your share, and more than your share. I would settle down to lead a happy life, and think no more of the matter." "I could not do that," Haw answered earnestly.
"I have not been singled out to wield this immense power simply in order that I might lead a happy life.
I can never believe that.
Now, can you not use your imagination, Robert, and devise methods by which a man who has command of--well, let us say, for argument's sake, boundless wealth, could benefit mankind by it, without taking away any one's independence or in any way doing harm ?" "Well, really, now that I come to think of it, it is a very difficult problem," said Robert. "Now I will submit a few schemes to you, and you may give me your opinion on them.
Supposing that such a man were to buy ten square miles of ground here in Staffordshire, and were to build upon it a neat city, consisting entirely of clean, comfortable little four-roomed houses, furnished in a simple style, with shops and so forth, but no public-houses.
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