[The Second Generation by David Graham Phillips]@TWC D-Link bookThe Second Generation CHAPTER XXIV 15/35
Everyone is to pay for what he gets.
Some one has to pay for it; why not the person who gets the benefit? Especially when the university's farms and workshops and factories give every student, man and woman, a chance to earn a good living.
I tell you Adelaide, the time is coming when every kind of school except kindergarten will be self-supporting. And then you'll see a human race that is really fine, really capable, has a real standard of self-respect." As Madelene talked, her face lighted up and all her latent magnetism was radiating.
Adelaide, for no reason that was clear to her, yielded to a surge of impulse and, half-laughing, half in tears, suddenly kissed Madelene.
"No wonder Arthur is mad about you, stark mad," she cried. Madelene was for a moment surprised out of that perfect self-unconsciousness which is probably the rarest of human qualities, and which was her greatest charm to those who knew her well.
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