The idea expressed in the passage is best represented by the "Gospel of Wealth." Andrew Carnegie advocates for the idea that wealthy individuals should use their fortunes to benefit society as a whole, promoting the common good rather than distributing wealth in small amounts to individuals.
There remains, then, only one mode of using great fortunes…Under its sway we shall have an ideal state, in which the surplus wealth of the few will become, in the best sense, the property of the many, because administered for the common good, and this wealth, passing through the hands of the few, can be made a much more potent force for the elevation of our race than if it had been distributed in small sums to the people themselves. Even the poorest can be made to see this, and to agree that great sums gathered by some of their fellow citizens and spent for public purposes, from which the masses reap the principal benefit, are more valuable to them than if scattered among them through the course of many years in trifling amounts. —Andrew Carnegie, 1889 Question Use the quote to answer the question. Which idea does this passage express? (1 point) Responses Manifest Destiny Manifest Destiny Gospel of Wealth Gospel of Wealth Wealth of Nations Wealth of Nations Social Darwinism
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