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For, that the aggregate of production is greatly reduced by the greed with which riches are pursued, is one of the most obstrusive facts of modern society. While, were this insane desire to get rich at any cost lessened, mental activities now devoted to scraping together riches would be translated into far higher spheres of usefulness.