Show when business und anti morals are one it is a very common thing for people to lament that they did not get rid of trisor this or that property before its value depreciated of course what they are really sorry u tor for is that they could not hae have contrived to sad die ile their loss on some one else it is a sign of if the imperfection of contemporary benevolence ne that good people should have suc such h feelings and should regard them aa as matters of course they are humorously unchristian the utmost the average con temporary moralist enjoins is that a man mail shall not unload upon his friends lie ile cannot so much as imagine a scruple about selling out candescent stocks in open mar ket it will not be so when the millennium comes property will continue then as ai DO now w to fluctuate in value but the pros hect of a depression will no longer strike the owner as a good reason for selling out his ilis superior moral sense will then as now be profitable to his estate bince prope property arty always depreciate as much due h I 1 h expected and often in the end it recovers reco era more ore than it lost but the great adeall tage from a business point of view of the perfected altruism will bo be emancipation of 0 the altruist from panic and all its consequences quen ces since the man who is more ready to accept his loss than to pass it on is not to be scared into a foolish sacrifice by the shadow of it beforehand scribners |