Unto This Last, he therefore entreated us to set aside our ordinary monetary conceptions of wealth in order to take up a ‘life’-based view, according to which the wealthiest people in the land would no longer automatically be the merchants and the landowners, but those who most keenly felt wonder beneath the stars at night or were best able to interpret and alleviate the sufferings of others. ‘There is no wealth but life,’ he intoned: ‘life, including all its powers of love, of joy and of admiration. That country is richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings;
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