...nearly — the subject of money. Unsentimental, unheroic, some will say unchristian, as it may sound, our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test...root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives. And this secret lies not so much with men as with us women. Instead of striving to make ourselves...

...nearly — the subject of money. Unsentimental, unheroic, some will say unchristian, as it may sound, our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test...root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives. And this secret lies not so much with men as with us women. Instead of striving to make ourselves...

...nearly — the subject of money. Unsentimental, unheroic, some will say unchristian, as it may sound, our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test...root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives. And this secret lies not so much with men as with us women. Instead of striving to make ourselves...

...symbolized the hardest-fought victories of character.49 As a writer in the Eclectic Magazine put it in 1886, "Our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test...root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives."50 The Victorian money ethic held out an optimistic promise that was both practical and spiritual:...