This essay focuses on THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM In the title.. What is to be understand by it? The attempt to give anything like a definition of it brings
of this study is use the somewhat pretentious phrase, the spirit of capitalism. What is to be understand by it? Such an historical concept, however, since it refers in its content to a phenomenon significant for its unique individuality, cannot be define according to the formula genus proximum, differentia specifica, but it must be gradually put together out of the individual parts
which are take from historical reality to make it up. Thus the final and definitive concept cannot stand at the beginning of the investigation, but must come at the end., till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breedingsow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produce, even scores of pounds.
Remember this s5 credit fall into. To prevent this, keep an exact account for some time both of your expenses and your income. If you take the pains at first to mention particulars, it will have this good effect: you will discover how wonderfully small, trifling expenses mount up to large sums; and will discern what might have been, and may for the future be save, without occasioning any great inconvenience. For six pounds a year you may have the use of one hundred pounds, provide you are a man of known prudence and honesty