(2) But money has furnished us
with a token for everything: hence it is with the notion
of money, that the mind of the multitude is chiefly
engrossed: nay, it can hardly conceive any kind of pleasure,
which is not accompanied with the idea of money as cause.
[Ap.XXIX] ((Ap29:1) This result is the fault only of those, who seek money,
not from poverty or to supply their necessary, wants, but
because they, have learned the arts of gain, wherewith they
bring themselves to great splendour. (2) Certainly they
nourish their bodies, according to custom, but scantily,
believing that they lose as much of their wealth as they
spend on the preservation of their body. (Ap29:3) But they who
know the true use of money, and who fix the measure of wealth
solely with regard to their actual needs, live content with
little.
[Ap.XXX] (Ap30:1) As, therefore, those things are good which assist the
various parts of the body, and enable them to perform their
functions; and as pleasure consists in an increase of, or aid
to, man's power, in so far as he is composed of mind and body;
it follows that all those things which bring pleasure are good.
(Ap30:2) But seeing that things do not work with the object of
giving us pleasure, and that their power of action is not
tempered to suit our advantage, and, lastly, that pleasure is
generally referred to one part of the body more than to the
other parts; therefore most emotions of pleasure (unless reason
and watchfulness be at hand), and consequently the desires
arising therefrom, may become excessive.
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