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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...must be absolutely free. There is, for example, that disconcerting natural law by which money flows superabundantly into the coffers of the rich and avoids those places where it would be most desirable,--the wretched habitations of the poor. When we have the sense of reality we simply perceive how it is that the natural law of interest operates, and there is an end of the matter. We do not argue with money as if it knew what it was doing.1 Here, again, the sense of reality is favorable to happiness, at least of a tranquil kind, as it spares us all the pain and 1 An objection may be raised to this passage on the ground that although money is unconscious the holders of it are not. The answer is that the owners of money are compelled to act in obedience to its laws under penalty of sacrificing their own interests to those of others, or to a principle. They do so occasionally, as when they decline to receive interest for money lent, but as a rule they obey the natural law almost as regularly as if they were unconscious agents. excitement of useless indignation. It is silly to vex our souls about the senseless forces of the world; it is prudent to take them as they are, and make the best of them in our own interest. The genuine sense of reality is usually associated with the scientific temper, but there is a false and unwarranted belief in one's own sense of reality which belongs to the simplicity of ignorance. The true Philistine always thinks that his sense of reality is much sounder and stronger than that of educated men. He thinks that educated people excel only in possessing useless knowledge or frivolous accomplishments, whilst he himself, the practical man, excels in sterling common sense, the sense that deals with the world as it really is. I remember th...
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- VerlagRareBooksClub.com
- Erscheinungsdatum2012
- ISBN 10 1231240555
- ISBN 13 9781231240557
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten46
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