27 OCTOBER 1877, Page 13

THE " ROOT OF ALL EVIL"

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") not P4're. yoZp crI in co Kwv xecx.6v crry paapyveta, " Love of money is the root of all that is bad," very much the same as " Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames ?" " What is there which a man will not be driven to by greed of gold?" That gold is, nevertheless, one of God's good creatures, that it may be sought for from good motives and made use of to good ends, neither poet nor apostle will be found to deny.

Still sometimes, I own, it has a little surprised me that there is no Society for total abstinence from money-making.—I am, Sir, &c.,