Of course no question is here entertained as to the truth or beauty of the creeds on which the cults proceed.

And even their remoter economic bearing can not be taken up here; the subject is too recondite and of too grave import to find a place in so slight a sketch.
Something has been said in an earlier chapter as to the influence which pecuniary standards of value exert upon the processes of valuation carried out on other bases, not related to the pecuniary interest.

The relation is not altogether one-sided.

The economic standards or canons of valuation are in their turn influenced by extra-economic standards of value.

Our judgments of the economic bearing of facts are to some extent shaped by the dominant presence of these weightier interests.