The type of character produced by Wealth lies on the surface for all to see. Wealthy men are insolent and arrogant; their possession of wealth affects their understanding; they feel as if they had every good thing that exists; wealth becomes a sort of standard of value for everything else, and therefore they imagine there is … Continue reading Aristotle on the character of wealthy men
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James Mill on Aristocracy
From Mill's 1836 essay, 'Aristocracy'. Inequalities of fortune produce good effects. ‘Reformers are far from thinking evil of inequalities of fortune; on the contrary, they esteem them a necessary consequence of things which are so good, that society itself, and all the happiness of human beings, depend upon them: a consequence of those laws whence … Continue reading James Mill on Aristocracy
