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Actually the admiration turns out to have been mutual.
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Perhaps I may be allowed to end with an Englishman’s expression of admiration, tinged perhaps a little with envy, at the generous opportunities which the rapidly growing number of American universities is offering for advanced economic study, and at the zeal and ability with which these opportunities are being turned to account.
Alfred Marshall
Cambridge, England.
Source: Concluding paragraph of Alfred Marshall’s response to an article by Simon Patten: “Consumer’s Surplus,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 3 (March, 1893), pp. 90-93.
Image Source: Alfred Marshall by Walter Stoneman (1917). National Portrait Gallery, NPG x25013. Creative Commons license.