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The United States has not only failed to produce a genuine aristocracy; it has also failed to produce an indigenous intelligentsia. The so-called intellectuals of the country are simply weather-vanes blown constantly by foreign winds, usually but not always English.
The theory seems to be that so long as a man is a failure he is one of God's chillun, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
The notion that anything useful is accomplished by providing a large amount of leisure for the inferior man is probably full of folly. He invariably spends it foolishly. The five-day week is humane, and all rational men have supported it, but it would be silly to say that it has produced any public value, save the lowly value of making idiots happy . . . They are just as stupid as they were before they had it; indeed, there is some reason to believe that they are more stupid.
The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.