It is no insignificant part either. I was reading the other day an article by the author of Com's Finvnecial School, a pamphlet which recently attracted some attention in the United States, in which the question is propounded, what is it that exerts the most powerful influence in the world over the actions of mankind?" I passed on the enquiry to a lady of amy acquaintance in Shanghai to whom it presented no difficulty at all. She had not a shadow ut a doubt that love was the prime motive in human conduct. One would like to think she was right, and, if her answer be taken intensively and not extensively, I think she was. But if the numerical reply expected is to be given, that is to say, if we are to consider the numbers influenced and not the degree of influence exerted, I do not see how Mr. Harvey's conclusion can be resisted, that the inflaence of money in shaping the the first place to avoid all technicalities and j civilisation of the world has been more powerful than even that of love or religion. Phere is nothing to compare with it as an incentive to human action. It is at once the greatest aid to labour and its most generally desired reward. It is, in fine, the material basis of our modern civilisation.
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