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032 - Intellectual - Chapter 11 · Short History of Pittsburgh

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  Speaker 1: Section thirty one of Short History of Pittsburgh by Samuel
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  Speaker 1: Harden Church. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Read by Tatiana Chichilla, section thirty one, Intellectual, chapter eleven.
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  Speaker 1: And so my little story of Pittsburgh comes to an end.
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  Speaker 1: It is the story of a great achievement in the
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  Speaker 1: building of a city and the development of a community
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  Speaker 1: within its boundaries. I have sometimes heard a sneer at
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh as a place where undigested wealth is paramount. I
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  Speaker 1: have never beheld the city in that character. On the contrary,
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  Speaker 1: I have on frequent occasions seen the assemblage of men
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  Speaker 1: native here, where a goodly section of the brain and
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  Speaker 1: power of the nation was represented. There is much wealth here,
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  Speaker 1: but the dominant spirit of those who have it is
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  Speaker 1: not the spirit of pride and luxury and arrogance. There
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  Speaker 1: is much poverty here, but it is the poverty of hope,
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  Speaker 1: which effort and opportunity will transform into affluence. And especially
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  Speaker 1: is there here a spirit of good fellowship, of help
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  Speaker 1: one to another, and of pride in the progress of
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  Speaker 1: the intellectual life. And with all of these comes a
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  Speaker 1: growth toward the best civic character, which in its aggregate
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  Speaker 1: expression is probably like unto the old prophet's idea of
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  Speaker 1: that righteousness which exalteth a nation. End of section thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: end of a Short History of Pittsburgh by Samuel Hardin
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  Speaker 1: Church