The Camel and the Needle's Eye

A more precise definition must be given of the limit of income referred to in the last chapter as “a definite amount of money which might be roughly described as a full competen...

The problem of riches--Necessity for scientific investigation into the lives of the rich--Interdependence of riches and poverty--Analysis of expenditure on houses, servants, clo...

The deceptive process of the growth of riches--The relaxation of effort--The love of ease--The power of convention--The disadvantages of abundance--Surfeit--Difficulties in a ri...

The rich man as a business man--The conduct of a successful business--Money-making the incentive--Money no measure of merit or worth in men--Or in works of art--Financiers--The...

Extreme poverty a consequence of extreme wealth--Pity or contempt for the poor--Money ideal strong among the poor--The different phases in making a fortune--The general tendency...

The natural desire of every man is to do the best he can for his children, and in this respect the rich man feels that his money is of special advantage to him. But are healthy...

Money as a supreme concern--Intensity of belief in money--Definition of Contention--The impulses which act as the motive power of money-making--The limitation of human capacitie...

“The religion we profess has for one of its most significant and salient features the denunciation of wealth as a trust or a pursuit: Christianity condemns riches as a snare, a...

We must now turn from what the rich man spends on himself and consider what good and what harm he does by his subscriptions and donations to philanthropic and charitable objects.

Only the surface of the subject has been touched, only a few of the many heads into which the discussion might be divided have been considered at all, and only some of the more...

My original intention was to collect together a number of essays on some of the most important bearings of the question of the expenditure of riches. After corresponding with th...

The rich man as a business man--The conduct of a successful business--Money-making the incentive--Money no measure of merit or worth in men--Or in works of art--Financiers-- The...

The deceptive process of the growth of riches--The relaxation of effort--The love of ease--The power of convention-- The disadvantages of abundance--Surfeit--Difficulties in a r...

Extreme poverty a consequence of extreme wealth--Pity or contempt for the poor--Money ideal strong among the poor-- The different phases in making a fortune--The general tendenc...

The problem of riches--Necessity of a scientific investigation into the lives of the rich--Interdependence of riches and poverty--Analysis of expenditure on houses, servants, cl...

Money as a supreme concern--Intensity of belief in money-- Definition of Contention--The impulses which act as the motive power of money-making--The limitation of human capaciti...