of the right sort which modern life offers them.


_Luxury_


One of the most serious evils in the modern world is that a great many
men and women have far more money than is good for them, and that of
these a considerable number are not under any necessity to work.
Nothing in all the wide world is worse for a man than to have lots of
money and nothing to do. It is among these men that the patrons of
expensive vice are to be found. Of necessity such men are bored by
ordinary life. For life without work in it is always boring. It follows
that they must seek excitement, and a very short time suffices for them
to get all the excitement possible out of innocent recreations.
Wherefore in pursuit of something to stir them they take to the
diversions that are not innocent, and often try to exploit their own
passions to give color to life. Their expensive and luxurious ways of
life constitute one of the worst moral forces in the community. They
keep in existence to pander to their desires large numbers of
subordinates whose lives are also worthless and without any productive
value. It is because of them that the life of a courtesan seems to
offer golden prizes to some, and the hope of reaping such prizes
deludes many. Because this is a materialistic age their money gives
them powers to which they have no moral right, and no more wholesome
thing could happen to the whole community than that the necessary
changes should be worked out which would make such noxious drones
impossible in the future. It is for these people that sweated workers
drudge and sweat. And then, under our curious and indefensible laws of
inheritance, it is possible for wealth thus created to be passed on