This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... MONEY HUNGER CHAPTER I '"THE recent exposures of commercial immorality existing in high places, and the wide difference of opinion which exists concerning the degree in blameworthiness of the acts revealed, point to the conclusion that a rigidly correct attitude in business, and a clear understanding of what ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... MONEY HUNGER CHAPTER I '"THE recent exposures of commercial immorality existing in high places, and the wide difference of opinion which exists concerning the degree in blameworthiness of the acts revealed, point to the conclusion that a rigidly correct attitude in business, and a clear understanding of what constitutes it, are far less prevalent in the community than is generally supposed. Large numbers of people are presumably honest in thought and in 249137 conduct, but there is no established and universally accepted code of correct business behavior--more particularly with respect to the finer shades of commercial integrity. Instead, there prevail only vague notions concerning the correctness of many acts which lie between the extremes of acknowledged theft and indubitable honesty. Recent revelations have disclosed crimes new neither in kind nor, altogether, in degree--for the same practices, although often exposed, have existed for many years in all their variety. But the general spread of commercial immorality among all classes of our people is of such comparatively recent occurrence that the writer has felt constrained to isolate and examine the causes to which it may be referred, and, if possible, to discover and point out the correctives which in time may be expected naturally to assert themselves, as well as those which society itself obviously should provide and apply. Towards loose commercial morals there has grown up a tolerance on the part of a cynically lenient public which has steadily sapped the char acters of men in positions of trust. It can hardly be denied that among men of this class, as well as among those whose responsibilities are less, the decay of probity has not only become epidemic, but is infectious as well. Those...
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