Columbia University Quarterly, Vol. 12 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Columbia University Quarterly, Vol. 12 Not long ago a distinguished lawyer of the Middle West, pleading the cause of one of the societies for improving civic conditions, risked the assertion that the higher life of the American people "had been drugged with a spirit of mercenary materialism," and that "political self-seeking and unlimited corporate greed have become a national religion," while material aggrandizement is "leading us in the direction of national decay." Although this charge is overdrawn and is likely to be thrown out by the grand jury of enlightened public opinion, there is conviction in his later statement that mere material prosperity is what is too commonly known as "success in life," whereas "in reality it is failure," for "it confounds the end with the means," since we have reached only "the portals of success when we have become wealthy and influential. Our culture is more or less shallow, and our lives arc more or less limited and crippled, unless we are patriotic and unselfish. We are like plants which put forth the buds of promise but never reach the blossoming stage." It may be admitted, at once, that in the mouth of the ordinary American of today the word success is usually interpreted to mean material prosperity, the attainment of a comfortable fortune, the acquisition of the assured position which money generally gives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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