If you have realised the _spirit_ of opulence you _cannot help_ drawing to yourself material good, as well as that higher wealth which is not to be measured by a money standard; and because you truly understand the _spirit_ of opulence you will neither affect to despise this form of good, nor will you attribute to it a value that does not belong to it; but you will _co-ordinate_ it with your other more interior forms of wealth so as to make it the material instrument in smoothing the way for their more perfect expression. Used thus, with understanding of the relation which it bears to spiritual and intellectual wealth, material wealth becomes _one with them_, and is no more to be shunned and feared than it is to be sought for its own sake. It is not money, but the _love_ of money, that is the root of evil; and the _spirit_ of opulence is precisely the attitude of mind which is furthest removed from the love of money for its own sake. It does not believe in money. What it does believe in is the generous feeling which is the intuitive recognition of the great law of circulation, which does not in any undertaking make its first question, How much am I going to _get_ by it? but, How much am I going to _do_ by it? And making _this_ the first question, the getting will flow in with a generous profusion, and with a spontaneousness and rightness of direction that are absent when our first thought is of receiving only. We are not called upon to give what we have not yet got and to run into debt; but we are to give liberally of what we _have_, with the knowledge that by so doing we are setting the law of circulation to work, and as this law brings us greater and greater inflows of every kind of good, so our out-giving will increase, not by depriving ourselves of any expansion of our own life that we may desire, but by finding that every expansion makes us the more powerful instruments for expanding the life of others. "Live and let live" is the motto of the true opulence. XV BEAUTY