Worry Is Interest Paid On

The Strongest Wish Of A Vast Number Of Earnest Men And Women To-day Is For A Basis Of Religious Belief Which Shall Rest, Not Upon Tradition Or External Authority Or Historical Evidence, But Upon The Ascertainable Facts Of Human Experience. The Craving For Immediacy, Which We Have Seen To Be Characteristic Of All Mysticism, Now Takes The Form Of A Desire To Establish The Validity Of The God-consciousness As A Normal Part Of The Healthy Inner Life.

But The Instinct Of Hoarding, Like All Other Instincts, Tends To Become Hypertrophied And Perverted; And With The Institution Of Private Property Comes Another Institution-that Of Plunder And Brigandage. In Private Life, No Motive Of Action Is At Present So Powerful And So Persistent As Acquisitiveness, Which Unlike Most Other Desires, Knows No Satiety. The Average Man Is Rich Enough When He Has A Little More Than He Has Got, And Not Till Then.

Gambling Is A Disease Of Barbarians Superficially Civilized.

Civilization Is A Disease Which Is Almost Invariably Fatal.

The Statistics Of Suicide Show That, For Non-combatants At Least, Life Is More Interesting In War Than In Peace.