to himself.

Necessity is no mother to enthusiasm. Necessity carries a whip.
Its method is compulsion, not love. It has no thought to make
itself attractive; it is content to drive. Enthusiasm comes
with the revelation of true and satisfying objects of devotion;
and it is enthusiasm that sets the powers free. It is a sort
of enlightenment. It shines straight upon ideals, and for those
who see it the race and struggle are henceforth toward these.
An instance will point the meaning. One of the most distinguished
and most justly honored of our great philanthropists spent the
major part of his life absolutely absorbed in the making of
money--so it seemed to those who did not know him. In fact, he had
very early passed the stage at which he looked upon his business as
a means of support or of material comfort. Business had become
for him an intellectual pursuit, a study in enterprise and
increment. The field of commerce lay before him like a chess-board;
the moves interested him like the manoeuvers of a game. More money
was more power, a great advantage in the game, the means of shaping
men and events and markets to his own ends and uses. It was his
will that set fleets afloat and determined the havens they were
bound for; it was his foresight that brought goods to market at the
right time; it was his suggestion that made the industry of
unthinking men efficacious; his sagacity saw itself justified at
home not only, but at the ends of the earth. And as the money
poured in, his government and mastery increased, and his mind was
the more satisfied. It is so that men make little kingdoms for
themselves, and an international power undarkened by diplomacy,
undirected by parliaments.