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Show THINGS PREFERRED TO WEALTH. I-'ew I'enple Actually So Constituted as to Ho satisfied with It Alone. As a matter, of fact, the chief im oresMou produced by great wealth, even m America, is simply curiosity, not admiration, hardly even envy. 1 here are many tilings that people really value more than wealth at any Time perhaps, thinks Harper's Bazar, valuing wealth only as a means for Lnese tilings. In youth people prize amusement, pleasure, love; and wealth is i arown away recklessly for the sake ,f such ends. After the maturer tastes are developed people have no objection to wealth for the sake of other aims which it mav promote, but it is not a sulistitute for those aims. The artist loves art. the man of science loves .-eience. the student loves study, ihe inventor loves invention, the domestic man loves home. Even the man of action loves action mainly as a thing- attractive in itself. He would readily accept wealth as a means of achieving his other purposes, but he would not sell those purposes for wealth. The proof of this is that he noes not; indeed, he often impoverishes impover-ishes himself for his own pursuits. "Beyond "Be-yond a very moderate account," wrote Oilcridgc, T regard money as a real evil. I he man of other pursuits knows iliat one cannot possibly be very rich and carry on those pursuits also, so en-arosMD!? en-arosMD!? is the mere care of property, .and so difficult and absorbing is the n ise use of it. Many a prominent artist or author lias been simply ruined for I i 1 s for which he was created nv becoming heir to a large estate; not tnat it demoralized him otherwise, but t left lum no time for his natural oru. oluines have been written on ion of genius by p. wort y, |
