Word: earnings
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...best purposes, and just as easily for the worst. It is like many other powers with which God has endowed us, that it may bring within our reach much that would otherwise be beyond it. It is unlike those other powers, in that, while they must oftenest earn their desires, it may as often buy them. In our time we are seeing as never before the enormous power not only of mere wealth, but the still more gigantic powers of associated or organized wealth. But we ought not to lose sight of the fact that if such conbinations have involved...