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poor. So doing you will be rich indeed; this is the true glory and grandeur of money."

He further says in his nice lecture on money : "Money has its dangers. One great danger is pride. Money often leads men to be proud, and to think themselves better than their fellows, when really they have no merit at all, except the power which money gives them. Sometimes people, because they are rich, become so elated with their own importance that they think their very faults to be virtues, their foolishness to be wisdom. They deem themselves to be above law, to be above God's law as well as man's."

This criticism on the thoughts and doings of the rich applies to all, Zamindars as well as all other rich persons. Now I turn again to the question, what part of our income should be saved? How can you form an idea as to how much you can,