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THE LURE OF THE MATERIAL--BEAUTY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.

When each individual realises for himself that this thing primarily stands for and should only be accepted as a moral due--that it should be paid out as honestly stored energy, and not as a usurped privilege--many of our social, religious, and political troubles will have permanently passed.

As for Carrie, her understanding of the moral significance of money was the popular understanding, nothing more.

The old definition: "Money: something everybody else has and I must get," would have expressed her understanding of it thoroughly.