“ Norton’s an idealist – a Harvard man. Prodigious memory. Idealism led him to philosophic anarchy, and his family threw him off. Father’s a railroad president and many times millionaire, but the son’s starving in ’Frisco, editing an anarchist sheet for twenty-five a month. ”
 Jack London, Martin Eden (1909). copier la citation

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“But you’ll find these fellows intelligences and not bourgeois swine. But watch out, they’ll talk an arm off of you on any subject under the sun. ” “ Hope Norton’s there, ” he panted a little later, resisting Martin’s effort to relieve him of the two demijohns. Norton’s an idealist – a Harvard man. Prodigious memory. Idealism led him to philosophic anarchy, and his family threw him off. Father’s a railroad president and many times millionaire, but the son’s starving in ’Frisco, editing an anarchist sheet for twenty-five a month. so he had no idea of where he was being led.
“ Go ahead, ” he said; “ tell me about them beforehand. What do they do for a living? How do they happen to be here? ” “ Hope Hamilton’s there. ” “ Strawn-Hamilton’s his name – hyphenated, you know – comes of old Southern stock.” source