. The Saturday evening post. shut out the world. Therewould be high-vaulted ceilings and roomslighted by a thousand candles, gay friendsby the score to drink my liquor, fine clothesand finer manners, horses, hounds andguns and joyous days of loafing and joyousnights of frolic. This is the nature left tome from childhood, and it believes in fairytales and dreams. By working hard I can get the money togratify the nature that is content with sim-ple things, and by grace of a defensive phil-osophy I can persuade myself that thethings desired by my other nature wouldnot be good for me. Men get what
. The Saturday evening post. shut out the world. Therewould be high-vaulted ceilings and roomslighted by a thousand candles, gay friendsby the score to drink my liquor, fine clothesand finer manners, horses, hounds andguns and joyous days of loafing and joyousnights of frolic. This is the nature left tome from childhood, and it believes in fairytales and dreams. By working hard I can get the money togratify the nature that is content with sim-ple things, and by grace of a defensive phil-osophy I can persuade myself that thethings desired by my other nature wouldnot be good for me. Men get what they can and, for the mostpart, spend in proportion to their does not breed vice any more thanwant breeds virtue. Rather the desire formoney encourages industry, industry en-courages sanity and sanity insists uponvirtue. It is not money that is filthy, butonly the abnormal man who, being bentupon evil, uses money for filthy purposes, asother and better men use it to cleanse andenlighten and beautify the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 85
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