Continuous effort, or patient labour, is for the Spaniard an insupportable thing.

Half through indolence, half through pride, he cannot bend to work.

A Spaniard will blush to work; he will not blush to beg![2] [Footnote 2: EUGENE POITOU--_Spain and its People._ pp.

184--188.] It is in this way that society mainly consists of two classes--the savers and the wasters, the provident and the improvident, the thrifty and the thriftless, the Haves and the Have-nots.

The men who economize by means of labour become the owners of capital which sets other labour in motion.