To the BELOVED REPUBLIC under whose equal laws I am made the peer of any man, although denied political equality by my native land, I dedicate this book with an intensity of gratitude and admiration which the native-born citizen can neither feel nor understand.

— Dedication to Andrew Carnegie’s Triumphant Democracy (Scribner’s, 1886)

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