Humanity have ended up with (rightly) doubting its ability to keep itself healthy, with being able to decide what is good for it. Our instincts seem to tell us to eat foods, which, eaten daily and in the quantities we would like, would damage our health. I, for one, desire cheese in quantities which would [...]
Of course, another author with a high regard for the value of a unit of currency, was Jane Austen. During her lifetime genteel women could not work, and could only inherit or marry it. And genteel men had very limited ways of earning a living as well: the law, the church, the army (which would [...]
I posted a while ago that Tolstoy seemed to think the profit motive to be an evil one, and that writers generally look down on money making as beneath them, and I have been pleasantly surprised by Trollope’s acknowledgment of money, as having a place in the motivations of even (otherwise) decent people.I was gratified, [...]