MONEY

Simply to accumulate money that we are never to use it,from the intellectual point of view,is as stupid an operation as can be imagined.In places where much money is made we easily acquire a positive disgust for it.Our happiest hours have been spent with poor scholars and artists and men of science,whose words remain in the memory and make us rich indeed.And yet the real truth is that money is the strong protector of the intellectual life.The student sit and studies,too often despising the power that shelters him from the wintry night that gives him lamps and books and fire.For money is simply the accumulated labour of the past,guarding our piece like some mighty fortress wall within which men follow the most peaceful avocations.The art is to use money so that it shall be the protector and not the scatterer of our time,the body-guard of the sovereign Intellect and Will.