ANDREW CARNEGIE AND THE "GOSPEL OF WEALTH" Although Eliot and Andrew Carnegie were nearly exact contemporaries, no two men could have been more different. One epitomized the "Man of Family," "French-polished by society and travel," with "four or five generations of gentlemen and gentlewomen," colonial officials and Doctors of Divinity appropriately protrayed by Smibert and Copley, a man who as a child had "tumbled about in a library" -- the inheritor of "family traditions and the cumulative humanities" of New England's Brahmin Caste. The other exemplified the self-made man, "whittled into shape with his own jack-knife." Yet despite these differences,.
