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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 30, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 10.

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SMALL MEANS.

We think that the power of money is, on the whole, overestimated. The greatest things which have been done for the world have not been accomplished by rich men or by subscription lists, but by men generally of small pecuniary means. The greatest thinkers, discoverers, inventors, and artists have been men of moderate wealth, many of them little raised above the condition of manual laborers in point of worldly circumstances. And it will always be so. Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing. The youth who inherits wealth is apt to have life made too easy for him, and so grows sated with it, because he has nothing left to desire. Having no special object to struggle for, he finds time too heavy on his hands, remains mentally and morally asleep; and his position in society is often no higher than that of a polypus over which the tide floats.—Sel.