Money Enables Us To Get What We

My Father Must Have Had Some Elementary Education For He Could Read And Write And Keep Accounts Inaccurately

Perhaps You Know Some Well-off Families Who Do Not Seem To Suffer From Their Riches. They Do Not Overeat Themselves; They Find Occupations To Keep Themselves In Health; They Do Not Worry About Their Position; They Put Their Money Into Safe Investments And Are Content With A Low Rate Of Interest; And They Bring Up Their Children To Live Simply And Do Useful Work. But This Means That They Do Not Live Like Rich People At All, And Might Therefore Just As Well Have Ordinary Incomes.

The Minorities Are Sometimes Right. The Majorities Never.

The Policy Of Letting Things Alone, In The Practical Sense That The Government Should Never Interfere With Business Or Go Into Business Itself, Is Called Laisser-faire By Economists And Politicians. It Has Broken Down So Completely In Practice That It Is Now Discredited; But It Was All The Fashion In Politics A Hundred Years Ago, And Is Still Influentially Advocated By Men Of Business And Their Backers Who Naturally Would Like To Be Allowed To Make Money As They Please Without Regard To The Interest Of The Public.

What Is Both Surprising And Delightful Is That The Spectators Are Allowed, And Even Expected, To Join In The Vocal Part Of The Game...there Is No Reason Why The Field Should Not Try To Put The Batsman Off His Stroke At The Critical Moment By Neatly Timed Disparagements Of His Wife's Fidelity And His Mother's Respectability.