On my recent tour I was pleased to discover not only the stories of those magnates from the golden age of capitalism, but I was treated to a step back in time. Seeing their possessions and the cities they helped grow and thrive within was an invigorating experience.
Wikipedia describes an english gentlemen as follows:
To a degree, "gentleman" signified a man with an income derived from property, a legacy or some other source, and was thus independently wealthy and did not need to work. The term was particularly used of those who could not claim nobility or even the rank of esquire.
It's a romantic dream, but a dream nonetheless. To have been one of those gentlemen during the birth of a nation; rather not just a nation, but an Empire. Does such a chance still exist elsewhere in the world? The time for the gentlemen has occurred in both European and North American history1. Perhaps, there is indeed room for it to occur elsewhere.
1. Likely someone else can point to this occurring in central and southern Americas as well
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