Qu. Whether, beside the Bank-Company , there are not in England many private wealthy bankers, and whether they were more before the erecting of that company?
“Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting.” ~ Robert Bunsen , a German Chemist and inventor of the Bunsen Burner. How might this statement apply to our materialistic culture? What are some signs that indicate a culture may be turning to greed?
Qu. Whether it be rightly remarked by some that, as banking brings no treasure into the kingdom like trade, private wealth must sink as the bank riseth? And whether whatever causeth industry to flourish and circulate may not be said to increase our treasure?
Qu. Whether a door ought not to be shut against all other methods of growing rich, save only by industry and merit? And whether wealth got otherwise would not be ruinous to the public?
Qu. Whether the real foundation for wealth must not be laid in the numbers, the frugality, and the industry of the people? And whether all attempts to enrich a nation by other means, as raising the coin, stock-jobbing , and such arts are not vain?
“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” ~ Donald Trump Based on this person’s past and present behavior, how are these two statements true? False?
Whether an Irish lady, set out with French silks and Flanders lace, may not be said to consume more beef and butter than a hundred of our labouring peasants?
Whether a general habit of living well would not produce numbers and industry and whether, considering the tendency of human kind, the consequence thereof would not be foreign trade and riches, how unnecessary soever [sic: so ever]?
Whether an expense in gardens and plantations would not be an elegant distinction for the rich, a domestic magnificence employing many hands within, and drawing nothing from abroad?
Whether larger houses, better built and furnished, a greater train of servants, the difference with regard to equipage and table between finer and coarser, more and less elegant, may not be sufficient to feed a reasonable share of vanity, or support all proper distinctions? And whether all these may not be procured by domestic industry out of the four elements, without ransacking the four quarters of the globe?
Whether a nation within itself might not have real wealth, sufficient to give its inhabitants power and distinction, without the help of gold and silver?
Whether it were not wrong to suppose land itself to be wealth? And whether the industry of the people is not first to be consider'd, as that which constitutes wealth, which makes even land and silver to be wealth, neither of which would have, any value but as means and motives to industry?
Whether power to command the industry of others be not real wealth? And whether money be not in truth tickets or tokens for conveying and recording such power, and whether it be of great consequence what materials the tickets are made of?
What makes a wealthy people? Whether mines of gold and silver are capable of doing this? And whether the Negroes, amidst the gold sands of Africa, are not poor and destitute?