Andrew Carnegie: “Wealth”

Glossary

• Caste a division marking classes of society, based on distinctions in wealth, rank, profession, race, and others
• equipage trappings, such as furnishings, equipment fitted for special uses, apparel, and the like
• legatees people who benefit under the terms of a will
• privy coffer income of the state assigned to private, not public, purposes
• Shylock the Venetian Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice