precious to be meddled with; they say, “How very much he 
     must have done for society before society could have 
     been prevailed upon to give him so much money”; so 
     magnificent an organization overawes them; they regard 
     it as a thing dropped from heaven.

           “Money,” they say, “is the symbol of duty, it is the 
     sacrament of having done for mankind that which 
     mankind wanted. Mankind may not be a very good judge, 
     but there is no better.” This used to shock me at first, 
     when I remembered that it had been said on high 
     authority that they who have riches shall enter hardly 
     into the kingdom of heaven; but the influence of Erewhon 
     had made me begin to see things in a new light, and I 
     could not help thinking that they who have not riches 
     shall enter more hardly still.