It is well, nay, essential for the progress of the race, that the houses of some should be homes for all that is highest and best in literature and the arts, and for all the refinements of civilization, rather than that none should be so. The contrast between the palace of the millionaire and the cottage of the laborer with us today measures the change which has come with civilization. This change, however, is not to be deplored, but welcomed as highly beneficial.

It was just like the others in external appearance, and even within the difference was trifling between it and those of the poorest of his braves. When visiting the Sioux, I was led to the wigwam of the chief. The Indians are today where civilized man then was. In former days there was little difference between the dwelling, dress, food, and environment of the chief and those of his retainers. The conditions of human life have not only been changed, but revolutionized, within the past few hundred years. The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

“The Gospel of Wealth” By Andrew Carnegie