Question

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

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Which idea does this passage express?
(1 point)

Manifest Destiny

Gospel of Wealth

Wealth of Nations

Social Darwinism
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Answer 1

Gospel of Wealth — Carnegie argues that the rich should administer their surplus for the public good rather than distribute small amounts to the masses, which is the central idea of the Gospel of Wealth.