...modern capitalist society. THE RICH Mr. Strahan put Johnson in mind of a remark which he had made to him; "There are few ways in which a man can be more...this, (said Strahan,) the juster it will appear'' — Johnson, Boswell's Life There are geniuses in trade, as well as in war. . . . Nature seems to authorize...

...enabled to defend impulses and actions formerly condemned as reprehensible. Samuel Johnson's witticism, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money," spoke to the general acceptance of a universe of worldly pursuits and the need to get on with making...

...is characterized by a desire as innocent as any dignity. "Go for Profit. Samuel Johnson once said: 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money'" (McCormack 1984, 202). This capacity is inherent in everyone: "Most people, I believe, are born salesmen"...

...was ll. Montesquieu's propitious image of capitalism reflects the famous line by Dr. Samuel Johnson, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money" (Boswell l933, I, 657). It was John Maynard Keynes who wrote, "It is better that a man should tyrannize...

...nature. The pursuit of material gain came to be seen as innocuous. In the words of Dr. Samuel Johnson, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." Economic affairs were viewed as mundane, not important enough to affect the human condition in a major...

...age while condemning the degeneracy that new wealth entailed. "There are few ways," wrote Johnson, "in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."108 In his travels through western Scotland with Boswell, he was sensitive to how much the modern...