Helps to the young in their efforts at self-guidance [by W. Ellis] ed. by W. Jowitt1872 |
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Page 43 - ... with a conviction of the great importance of morality in business life. This latter point was one which he never lost an opportunity of impressing upon the learner's mind. It frequently came up in his conversation, and it pervades his writings : — This brings to our notice (he writes in one book") another qualification which must prevail widely wherever a high order of happiness is to be enjoyed— trustworthiness, or scrupulousness in making contracts and fidelity in performing them. These...
Page 113 - ... and fidelity in performing them. These qualifications will scarcely flourish as they ought unless the love of truth and habits of truthfulness be cultivated in childhood — to be strengthened afterwards by steady observance and practice — the essentials of self-discipline. Again he writes : — Whatever convenience and advantage there may be in this form of dealing (ie, credit), they can, it is clear, be thoroughly enjoyed only among a people deeply impressed with a sense of the duty of rigidly...
Page 78 - hence it comes to pass, that the exchangeable value of every commodityis more frequently estimated by the quantity of money than by the quantity either of labour or of any other commodity which can be had in exchange for it." Money is thus a ' measure of value' as well as a ' medium of exchange'; and its use limits the inconvenience, which is incident to a system of barter, of " determining at what rate an exchange shall be effected.
Page 36 - And upon the young who have not been thus blessed is imposed the duty, noble though difficult, to rise superior to the evil influences and neglect of which, through no fault of their own, they are the victims.