Note 98 — Chapter I · ON HAPPINESS

With this idea of the plebeian mind seeking praeter lucrum nihil there is a close parallel in Ruskin, Crown of Wild Olive, § 32: ‘In every nation there are a vast class who are ill-educated, cowardly, and more or less stupid. And with these people just as certainly the fee is first and the work second, as with brave people the work is first and the fee second.’