PROMOTERS AND PROMOTING 



needful education of the investing public, 

 teaching us to Be more wary in the face of 

 hoaxes, less gullible, less anxious to get 

 something for nothing I expect much 

 from that slow but sure moral amelioration 

 of men which I believe to be going on, 

 assuaging not the quest of wealth, which, if 

 the motive is good, is consonant with the 

 highest virtue; but lessening the desire of 

 wealth as an end, and rendering the cunning 

 and the crafty less ready to take advantage. 

 I do not speak of the millenium. In a day 

 much nearer than that, it shall, to all but the 

 very basest, seem better that a man act in all 

 things with scrupulous justice, dealing to 

 each his due, and helping to build high the 

 pile of social and general wealth, than that 

 he scheme to best his fellows at any cost, in 

 order to live in a great house, ride in a 

 private car, sail in a yacht, and rot when 

 dead under an immense pile of marble. 



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