The nobility and the leading gentry of these islands are most of them in business.

They are all shareholders, and often directors of railways, and just as much traders as the old coach proprietors were.

They let their land, and so do you, to the highest bidder, not for honor or any romantic sentiment, but for money, and that is trade.

Mr.Bartley is his own farmer; well, so was Mr.Coke, of Norfolk, and the Queen made him a peer for it--what a sensible sovereign! Are Rothschild and Montefiore shunned for their speculations by the nobility?
Whom do their daughters marry?
Trade rules the world, and keeps it from stagnation.

Genius writes, or paints, or plays Hamlet--for money; and is respected in exact proportion to the amount of money it gets.