To this object, he is ready to sacrifice time, talent, energy and every faculty, which he possesses.

Nay, he will go farther; he will spend honor, conscience and manhood, in an eager search for gold.

He will change his heart into a ledger on which he will write _tare_ and _tret_, loss and gain, exchange and barter, and he will succeed, as worldly men count success.

He will add house to house; he will encompass the means of luxury; his purse will be plethoric but, oh, how poverty stricken his soul will be.

Costly viands will please his taste, but unappeased hunger will gnaw at his soul.