id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt emerson-conduct-752 Ralph Waldo Emerson The Conduct Of Life .epub application/epub+zip 68224 3360 75 And when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals, the habit of expense, the riot of the senses, the absence of bonds, clanship, fellow-feeling of any kind, he feels, that, when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished, as if virtue were coming to be a luxury which few could afford, or, as Burke said, "at a market almost too high for humanity." He may fix his inventory of necessities and of enjoyments on what scale he pleases, but if he wishes the power and privilege of thought, the chalking out his own career, and having society on his own terms, he must bring his wants within his proper power to satisfy. ./cache/emerson-conduct-752.epub ./txt/emerson-conduct-752.txt