WHAT IS WEALTH?
Anything that brings men together so they talk, read, think, laugh, play, makes them better men.
These things stand for fellowship. Hell might be defined as the sum total of acts which possess no survival value. When a, certain man and. woman in New York, some years ago, spent a hundred thousand dollar's m giving a ball, the action was lauded in some quarters as beautiful and right, in. that a largo sum of money was put into circulation. But hi judging of that wonderful ball, which took the labour of a thousand people a full month to provide, we must consider the question of survival value. The question then is: What did the hundred thousand dollars'expended on . the ball produce? And the answer is: It produced the ball.
A grand ball has vei-y small survival value, if any. Late suppers, joy rides, jink feasts, have no survival value, because that which survives is not of worth. Wasted energies mean regrets, heada'ches, lassitude, and that dark brown taste, a commodity that has no value, as collateral, i Emerson added to the wealth of the world' when ho gave us the expression, the ''Law of Compensation.'' Herbert Spencer did the same for
us when he referred to the "Law of Diminishing Returns." Ernst Haeckel did as much when he spoke of the "Law of Pivotal Points, and the unknown man who flung out the phrase, " Survival Value." made us his debtor. —Elbert Hubbard.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11267, 22 December 1914, Page 4
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