Andrew Carnegie has gifted progressive philanthropy to the world.

To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]

Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.

His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain; The long remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.

To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world. [Lat., Nec sibi sed toti genitum se credere mundo.]