Divine wisdom guides the world, and the human race, working out
its destiny in seeming blindness, is not allowed to wander from
the track of actual progress.
The money-making mania is one phase of human advancement.
This is the age of industrial progress. Money is simply the
means of perfecting industry. It is human labor condensed and
put into compact, transferable shape.
The man with the hundred millions can build the great railroad
across the continent. There is no more important work now than
the building of that road.
The man with the thousand millions can control the great oil
trust and a dozen other trusts. He taxes the people--but his
hundreds of millions do an important and necessary work.
It is well for us all that such a man has sacrificed health,
digestion, happiness and all idea of self-indulgence to the
accumulation of a vast industrial army of dollars.
The scramble for money, looked at without understanding, is a
horrid sight. But horrid also is the sight of a battle that
frees slaves.
When the battle of money shall end, the score will be on the
right side of humanity's ledger.
A few forgotten billionaires will have struggled and died. Some
millions of men will have died disappointed.
But industry will have been brought to perfection.
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