Honore de Balzac. Grandet (№ 315819)

Misers do not believe in the hereafter, for them in the present. This idea sheds a terrifying light on the modern era when, more than at any other time, the money control the laws, policies and mores. Establish, books, people and doctrine - all conspire to undermine belief in a future life, which the society relied in the continued eighteen centuries. Now the grave - the transition, a little afraid. Future awaits us on the other side of Requiem, moved into the present. To accomplish per fas et nefas an earthly Paradise of luxury and vain pleasures, to turn a heart to stone, and the body to exhaust for possession of temporal goods, as once suffered fatal torment in the hope of eternal blessings - that is the General idea! The idea, moreover, inscribed everywhere, until the laws, the questioning of the legislator: "What pay?" instead say to him: "What thinkest?" When this teaching will be transferred from the bourgeoisie to the people, what will happen to the country?