Instead of being workers, leading in the march upward, instead of taking the position for which their superior opportunities should have fitted them, they set an example of idleness and indolence.
They despise their ancestry of toil which should be their pride.

They pride themselves upon the parasitism which is their shame.

And they set before the young an example of contempt for work, of looking on it as a curse and a disgrace." "I have been thinking of these things lately," said Hiram.
"It is the curse of the world, this inherited wealth," cried Hargrave.
"Because of it humanity moves in circles instead of forward.

The ground gained by the toiling generations, is lost by the inheriting generations.
And this accursed inheritance tempts men ever to long for and hope for that which they have not earned.

God gave man a trial of the plan of living in idleness upon that which he had not earned, and man fell.