The struggle for existence is so hard that we grow more and more material: the tendency is to regard it as the end of life to make money.

If there's time to think of higher things, well and good; if not, it doesn't matter much.

Well, we have to earn money; it is a necessary evil; but let us think as little about it as we may.

Our social state, in short, has converted the means of life into its end.' He paused, and Gilbert looked hearty agreement.
'That puts into a sentence,' he said, 'what I have thought through many an hour of work.' 'Well, now, we know there's no lack of schemes for reforming society.
Most of them seek to change its spirit by change of institutions.

But surely it is plain enough that reform of institutions can only come as the natural result of a change in men's minds.